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  • 20 years ago I was injured in one eye. Without an operation it would have left me going slowly blind. The operation was invented maybe 20 years earlier.

    Both my eyes had a cataract at a quite early age. Artificial lenses where invented AFAIK 50 years ago. The new lenses even correct my shortsightedness and astigmatism!

    So if I had lived only 50 years earlier I would be blind on one eye and quite possibly without a lense or at least seeing really foggy on the other. Now I am sitting here with - 0.5/-1 and otherwise great eye sight.

    There are no words how grateful I am for the wonders of modern eye medicine.















  • bobbytables@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlit is german right?
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    1 year ago

    The name of the fish “Stör” is the same as the word “disturb”. That alone offers a lot of potential for bad puns.

    It is also weirdly common as a part of other words that don’t have anything to do with fish. And third, there are parts of words that sound similar to Stör.

    Take all those ingredients and you can have a lot of fun with strange word combinations and only native speakers have a realistic chance of understanding.