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[T.T.]

ALDI was probably my favourite store when I lived in Alabama. They always had amazing produce.

 

[rygD]

Thanks @rygD, appriciate that. Though, actual corrections would have been of more help ;P

I will try.

Spoiler: Fail

There are a couple standards when using quotation marks. The one that I was taught makes no sense to me, so I do it my way knowing it is often wrong...it is something about the way the end of a quote and the end of a sentence (punctuation) collide. I am not sure if you did it right, but since you did it how I would it is probably wrong. Your second "sentence" is a fragment, so should probably be included in the first sentence by changing the period to a comma...and once again we have punctuation from the main sentence interfering with the quote, so you should seek advice from someone who follows the rules. I feel sentence three and four can be combined, kinda. I don't think it is proper to start a sentence with "and" except in a few rare cases, so just make that period a comma, and so on. Now we have a sentence that is a bit off, but I don't really feel like taking that right now. Fix the typo, and turn "I'd've" into "I'd have" (although it is often said that way, I don't think it is ever written). Not sure where the comma after getting came from, so kill it.

Hmmm, I haven't touched on tense, and I am tired of dissecting this atm. Looking back with my proposed changes in mind the post is still a mess. Believe it or not I have done this a lot in the past, and I guess I really suck at it. Shit, man, sorry I couldn't be of more help. Maybe after I have slept I can help betterer.

I can't remember what colors ALDI uses in their logo here, and I just stopped by there a few hours ago. They do have some pretty good stuff. They didn't have the soup I like.

Maybe we should move the last handful of posts somewhere else.
[doublepost=1515644083,1515643987][/doublepost]Oh, I did pick up a can of chili, though.

 

[tarator]

They've been pretty much all over the world for quite some time now. The funny thing is that the company split up decades ago because the Albrecht brothers got into a fight about the introduction of some new product types, there's a Northern and a Southern Aldi - with Germany being the only country where both are present, only separated by a certain border they drew back then that gave them those names. All other countries were cleanly split apart among those two, which still work together rather closely and try to keep up a common brand identity nowadays - there are quite some differences as far as the markets themselves are concerned, though, the Southern Aldi tends to have a better reputation in Germany, even though both mostly sell the same stuff using different brands.

You should be able to distinguish them by the colors, the Northern Aldi uses a blue-white theme while the Southern one uses a blue-orange one instead. Check the world map they show on the starting page of their websites.

Fun fact: In Austria ALDI-Supermarkets are branded with "Hofer" and not ALDI. I'm wondering if ALDI has chosen other names in other countries too.

 

[spud42]

it's Aldi here in Australia and it looks like we use the Aldi Süd logo.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

I will try.

Wow, someone psent some time on this, thanks. I think that 2nd sentence I meant as an addendum. It probably wouldn't get separates by punctuation at all? 3 and 4 are two different points I made. I should have started 4 with "And, ...", I guess. "I'd've" is the part, where I was trying to do English bad.
The comma after "getting" comes from German punctuation. There are way too few commas used in English, if you ask me. Sometimes when I read up on a topic, I'm not familiar with, I stumble on a long sentence, that I don't know, how it's meant to break up hierarchicly.

Maybe we should move the last handful of posts somewhere else.

Ain't it legit to MacGyver a news post that old?

Fun fact: In Austria ALDI-Supermarkets are branded with "Hofer" and not ALDI. I'm wondering if ALDI has chosen other names in other countries too.

Did they start the brand on their own or have they bought an existing one, I wonder.

 

[tarator]

Did they start the brand on their own or have they bought an existing one, I wonder.

IIRC the founders of Aldi where two brothers who start to fight. So they split up.

 

[Letalis Sonus]

I see no world map on the front page of aldi websites.

Try aldi.com or aldi.de, it redirects to the local websites.

Fun fact: In Austria ALDI-Supermarkets are branded with "Hofer" and not ALDI. I'm wondering if ALDI has chosen other names in other countries too.

Apparently the name Aldi was already taken by another Austrian company, so they just bought an Austrian chain that was just a few years old and made it a subsidiary company of Aldi Süd.

 

[ClockworkCoder]

I always find it amazing the things I learn in these threads. Fascinating.

 

[Dark Pulse]

http://www.autonews.com/article/20030616/SUB/306160713/model-t-had-many-shades;-black-dried-fastest

not true........

Was true, actually. That only began once Ford developed the assembly line. Before then, black was mandatory because it dried the fastest.

After giving it some thought somewhere between little and a lot, I decided that cold canned chili straight from the can is probably the modern day reality version of Bacherlor Chow. Sustaining something resembling life without the hassles of dignity or taste.

That'd be ramen noodles.

 

[error]

I think it will take a lot of effort to be as bad at (American) English as many of us have become. It is hard work to be lazy and ignore rules.

I can instantly spot a non-native speaker because they use "whom" correctly.

 

[levi]

There are way too few commas used in English, if you ask me.

As a native anglophone, I used to have to go through my posts before I posted them to go and remove commas.

I got better though. In this case I actually had to insert that comma after 'anglophone'.

 

[rygD]

Wow, someone psent some time on this, thanks.

"I'd've" was good then. In some places, or at least certain fields, commas are used sparingly. I have been told I use too many by some people. Occasionally, when I read things (in English, obviously), I feel that there is a lack of contact where they help with the flow and understanding of a sentence. Last night I read an essay like that.

I can instantly spot a non-native speaker because they use "whom" correctly.

When working less casually I take extra time and attention to ensure I get like things like that correct. Unfortunately, i often feel that my "formal" writing comes across as too technical. For casual writing i either write how I speak, or silly (which is only spoken to non-humans and a few humans I feel get that sort of playfulness). I wouldn't be surprised if I fall way below the level of correctness of many that are not native English speakers/writers.

As a native anglophone, I used to have to go through my posts before I posted them to go and remove commas.

I got better though. In this case I actually had to insert that comma after 'anglophone'.

As I said, over here I have been told a couple times that I am a bit heavy with commas. The essay I read last night was by a man from your island country. Aside from a few strange things he does in writing that probably come from how his mind works, he is a perfect example of where the lack of commas seems to get in the way. It almost seems like it is worse over there (although judging a country based on approximately a dozen books and essays by a single non-scholar isn't proof of anything other than the writing of that author). I feel I might have lightened up on commas too much, although when I read stuff that is 100+ years old I feel like my use of punctuation isn't totally terrible. Different ways certain things are used still gives me trouble, especially semicolons. I can never tell if I am doing it right since some people seem to use them in a way that doesn't for with what I thought the rule is.

 

[Djoga'Ro]

When working less casually I take extra time and attention to ensure I get like things like that correct. Unfortunately, i often feel that my "formal" writing comes across as too technical. For casual writing i either write how I speak, or silly (which is only spoken to non-humans and a few humans I feel get that sort of playfulness).

Same here with German.

Different ways certain things are used still gives me trouble, especially semicolons.

semicolon_count = semicolon_count + 1;

 

[Grench]

This thread has thoroughly digressed in record time. Well done!

 

[rygD]

This thread has thoroughly digressed in record time. Well done!

So I had some episodes of ST Voyager on as background noise earlier, and it was the one with the time travel ship. A little while ago I read someone's opinion about Discovery after watching the first episode (which won't tell you much about the series or first season).

Your post made me wonder how long it will take for us to get time travel episodes on Discovery. In the mean time, relax and have some 'shrooms.

 

[vcoleiro1]

I think we need a new update from ED

 

[Yori]

ALDI was probably my favourite store when I lived in Alabama. They always had amazing produce.

When one opened up nearby, It instantly became one of my favorite stores.

Note: I live in Florida.

 

[rygD]

When one opened up nearby, It instantly became one of my favorite stores.

Note: I live in Florida.

Do they quickly toss all your stuff into another cart, potentially smashing or breaking food?

 

[levi]

Here, they start tapping their fingers if you spend to long packing before you pay them. If you do pay them before you've finished packing, they'll start ringing the next person's stuff through and there's only a small space so you end up catching your stuff before it falls off the end.

The practical result here is that you spend as long as you dare packing your own stuff before you pay them, and once you've paid them you sweep everything up and swing round and dump it on the windowledges which are behind you. You'll always find a few people finishing up packing on the windowledges.

 

[T.T.]

I always just made sure I was faster than them. (granted, I never bothered to put things in bags though)