As a European it makes me proud to get a direct shout out from Linus 🫶🏻 <insert picture of beach here>
I mean, Linus Torvalds is an european after all.
Something feels funny about “an European”. I’m pretty sure I’d say “A European”, but I have no idea what rule is triggering me to say that.
Damn English is all over the place.
I didnt even think about it, but looking it up „a European“ is correct. It‘s not about the letter, but the sound.
Source: https://www.quora.com/Which-is-correct-“a-European”-or-“an-European”-Why
Whenever someone types “an historic” I read it as “an istoric” in my mind.
And you’d be right to do so!
I read that in a French accent
What an horrible rule
I disagree. It just marks the break between two vowel sounds. In English we just happen to write it down when necessary. French does this too, but in the opposite direction. As a general rule, one does not pronounce the last consonant of a word except in instances where two vowel sounds meet. In these cases, the first word’s consonant links into the second word
Whoosh
Lmao alright fair play
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Damn English is all over the place.
it absolutely is.
Imperialism does that.
English spelling doesn’t match sound, it’s about sound
European is (depending on exact dialect) /ˌjoː.ɹəˈpɪ.jan/, so it begins with a consonant. So you don’t need “an”
It’s most likely because you don’t pronounce a vowel at the front of the word, even if you write one.
He now lives in the US
Portland Oregon
I’m European, but I don’t get your excitement. Everybody has summer vacations, no? Not just Europeans. So what’s the deal?
In the US you probably get 2 weeks of flexible PTO and about 5 days where everybody gets a day off. Even that is not guaranteed US law doesn’t require any PTO.
Another shocker for others, maybe, is that many companies require you to use those same pool of days as your sick leave. Get sick and no vacation for you. Japan does this as well (though Japan actually has ma-/pa-ternity leave which is more than I can say for the US)
Holy shit… if I get sick during my vacation, I’ll get those vacation days refunded so I can use them later, when I’m not sick anymore. I can call in sick for up to three consecutive days, 25 days total per year without a doctors note. You only need a doctors note if you exceed those limits, and with a doctors note you have paid sick leave until the doctor says you are fit to work (although the government covers your salary, or part of it, not entirely sure about the details, after the first two weeks or something).
Doctor’s notes are usually up to the company to decide. There are various insurances and such as well that can kick in for long-term illness. Japan has a program that pays 60% of salary for some period of time, though I don’t know the details.
To clarify a bit: what I mentioned above is the legal minimum an employer can give me regarding sick days. They are of course free to do more, and I my personal case, I’ll usually just work reduced from home (answer mails and do lightweight administrative stuff) if I’m starting to get a cold or something, get better in a day or two, and come back full time, without logging any sick days, because my employer prefers that I’m available for small stuff and get well fast rather than that I take “full” sick leave if I’m just mildly sick.
This is a very real thing for tech teams with European members. They just peace out.
Nitpicking here, but I’ve never seen anyone actually spell out the word “quote” in this context, when typing it online. We have a special character for that
I assumed he misspelled quite.
Oh. Yeah. Nothing to see here. Everyone carry on
yeah, it’s perfectly quet here
It took me so long to find 🫢
It’s bad enough that we have to contend with the highway traffic and crowds of everyone here taking their vacations randomly over the 2 or 3 months of summer while the kids are out of school, and people without kids over about a 6 month period. It would be hell if absolutely everyone did it all over the same 2 weeks. Count me out.
