[613style]

Why are you monitoring your colleagues’ water intake?

[dgan]

because he s in front of me and i have eyes ?

[quesera]

Perhaps he has a renal function issue.

Perhaps he has a familial history of same and is acclimated to drinking more water than you are comfortable with.

Perhaps he just enjoys drinking water. I do. As cold as possible. Kaltes Klares Vasser.

Regardless, ain't none o' yr dang bidness.

[1718627440]

> Kaltes Klares Vasser

If that was supposed to be German for "cold clear water" that's "kaltes klares Wasser" and we don't capitalize adjectives.

[quesera]

It's actually a song title, so properly capitalized, but I mussed the V v. W because I do not speak German and forgot that when she sings "VASSuh", it's spelled with a W. :)

[1718627440]

To me the pronunciation of the first letter of the English word water and the German word Wasser sounds the same, but maybe my English is wrong.

[quesera]

Apparently it varies, but German-W pronounced as English-V (or at least nearly so) is the most common variation?

Many sources on the net, but this one has the most nuanced discussion that I could find:

https://old.reddit.com/r/German/comments/53ws8q/are_ws_alway...

[Toorkit]

Cold Clear Vater

[quesera]

Hah, quite.

I only cosplay Deutscher Sprecher.

Most of my German linguistic skills come from listening to Chicks on Speed.