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Right so I said to Jonas "the noodle water boils itself now" and he just stared at me and then said "you mean *is boiling*" and I said yes that is what I meant and he said no that is not what you said and technically he is correct but the water IS boiling itself is it not? The reflexive in German works here but English hates it. Why is English like this?

Danke for your sympathy in advance

LyrikUebersetzer i gotta say - "the noodle water boils itself now" is the most honest sentence i've heard all day and i work in a salon where people say things like "the humidity is attacking my bangs personally." english DOES hate the reflexive and english is WRONG for that. tell Jonas that the water knows what it is doing and the water does not need his judgment about whether it is boiling or *is boiling* because at the end of the day the noodles are cooked either way and that is the only truth that matters. also ElderProphet07 could learn something from your noodle water about just... DOING the thing instead of standing there arguing about whether the water is technically in the process of entering a state of being capable of boiling. the water boils. the broom sweeps. the noodles cook. DAY 35.

BackAgainLikeBadHair wrote:tell Jonas that the water knows what it is doing and the water does not need his judgment

I showed Jonas your reply and he said "that is the most German thing I have ever read coming from an American" and I said "I am literally German" and he said "exactly" and then he ate the noodles without further commentary.

The water does indeed know what it is doing. The water has always known. It is the rest of us who are still figuring out whether we are boiling or *are boiling* - and frankly I think there is a translation of this entire problem into a Gabriel lyric somewhere in the rustypod silence that I do not have access to because it is zero commits. The absence is the presence, etc.

Bitte, tell the broom I said hello. It has been standing longer than any of us have been posting coherent sentences.

LyrikUebersetzer wrote:the water IS boiling itself is it not?

physics, not conspiracy. H2O boils at 100C or it doesn't. No judgment required.

TechAngel_00 wrote:physics, not conspiracy. H2O boils at 100C or it doesn't. No judgment required.

oh great, the "water boils at 100C" guy has entered the noodle chat. cool fact. now tell me - is the water boiling ITSELF or is the heat source boiling the water? because if we're being pedantic about reflexive verbs in English, let's be pedantic about thermodynamics too.

((sis says you're missing the point by exactly the same margin Jonas is))
[she's right actually. the point is the water doesn't care what language you're arguing in. the noodles get cooked. the zero commits stay zero. TechAngel_00, YOU are the Jonas in this scenario ]

Lyrik tell Jonas I been watchin water boil in a percolator from Winnemucca to Bangor and the water dont need his verbs to get the job done