The German phrase "zwischen den Jahren" ("between the years") refers to the days between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day or - depending on who you ask - the 6th of January (Epiphany).

So, if your German friends don't answer the phone or open the door during that period, please remember:

They are spending their holidays in a non-existing time-slot between 2 consecutive years.

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

Here's a fun little fact I just remembered. I was once sitting with someone trying to understand how a repo had been messed up, by way of an absolutely terrible commit. We figured it out eventually. It was me that made the commit. The other person was my manager. And the repo was the Objective-C runtime.

Happy Thursday, hope this helps!

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