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Roro posted:Using the Hola extension lets non-US users watch videos on the US site, but it's an annoying extension sometimes.
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paradoxGentleman posted:I barely batted an eye at the nazi zombie fetuses, but calling a fart Nagasaki sort of rubs me the wrong way.
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LifeofaGuardian posted:I'd like to comment real quick that "Voila" is a French saying that people use when handing over something - it would probably best be translated as "Here you are" or "here you go".
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Crosspeice posted:If you get invaded every other century, you end up nicking a load of the occupier's language, so English is a terrifying stitch together of all sorts of crap.
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Today I've learned that Galit Sassoon uses the term "felicitous" in a way that doesn't make sense to other linguists, so my time browsing LP was not spent in vain.
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My favorite moderately relevant anecdote is about the Academy of Hebrew Language. It's somewhat based on the Académie française, except instead of maintaining obsolete rules of grammar, it concerns itself with inventing stupidly useless (both meanings of the word) Hebrew alternatives to perfectly good and established loanwords. Or trying in vain to replace the rare established Hebrew alternative with a more useless yet etymologically correct one. Plot twist: "Academy" is not a Hebrew word. Replacing it with the nearest Hebrew equivalent would "omit the breadth and historical connotations of the term". Apparently no one figured out yet that the same is true for most loanwords. Mraagvpeine posted:Apparently, the word "literally" can now mean both "literally" and "figuratively". English is such a broken language.
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Good LP. Glad I read through this instead of buying the game.
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