• BillyClark@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    I’ve never been to Singapore, but I think vending machines should be common enough there that they wouldn’t mistranslate it as ATM.

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      3 days ago

      mistranslate

      Americans when other dialects of English are allowed to do their own thing

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          2 days ago

          literally means figuratively, thing means object and not parliament, SMS means short message and not short message system, USAmericans say pants to trousers and underpants to pants, beamer for BMW, merc for Mercedes. Those are just different uses of words in different types of English.

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            Thing and ðing are different. SMS means short message service. BMer is pretty self explanatory. Merc is from the English who stole it from German parlance. And you just really are bitter aren’t you?