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@livus@kbin.social

If you like international and eclectic news, come and join me at @worldwithoutus (Link for Lemmy = worldwithoutus).

I've also started helping out at @worldnews, (Link for Lemmy = worldnews), @movies, (Lemmy = movies), and am a ghost at @13thfloor (Lemmy = 13th Floor).

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"Shop" seems to mean buy. "Shop affordable easter instore" = "buy cheap chocolate in our shop".

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<3

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Yes, but British English has superior insults like cockwomble.

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Really? Is it regional maybe? Irl I've only ever heard it from English people who want to say something stronger than "bell end".

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Whisky and whiskey are two different things.

"Scotch" is American for whisky but not for whiskey.

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At this point I'm pretty sure @Grogon is actually multiple iterations of a time traveller sent here to trap us.

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I never see them, I think we got to opt out of them when we signed up?

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I'm on kbin and can't find it. What are the bots like these days? Is it just these two bots or are there repost bots trying to copy reddit content?

The Conversation at 50: Francis Ford Coppola’s paranoid and predictive masterpiece (www.theguardian.com)

The 1974 suspense thriller smartly predicted the increasing importance of technology and lack of privacy in our lives......"Produced between The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, The Conversation was the only film that Coppola made in that peerless decade (which he ended with Apocalypse Now) that he scripted alone, without...

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I don't know, but I like it too so thanks for this post.

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The Rwandan Genocide was a horrific crime against humanity and yes the West could have done a lot more to stop it. The world should never forget.

But it really grinds my gears to see grandstanding by an authoritarian dictator like Kagame, who is running a state with terrible press freedom, torture, arbitrary detention, etc etc (and committed his own share of war crimes then and later, for that matter).

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@jeffw thanks, that's a good article (archive here for anyone else).

The part it doesn't really get into is who actually benefits from Kagame's machinations and from him being in power (including in the West).

But of course the article would be twice as long if it delved into Museveni in Uganda and the invasions of DR Congo and the 2nd Congo War and mineral wealth etc etc etc.

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@Immersive_Matthew that's a good point. Blaming cultures or public figures is futile.

I think that (like climate change) it has at least as much to do with the structures we permit as it does our individual beliefs and actions as people...

How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house?

I have been reading a lot lately about not wearing outside shoes in the house and it interests me even more because I’ve been saving to re-carpet my whole house. It hits me every now and then about how to do things though, like, say I’m cooking all day on Sunday then need to take the trash out. I’m assuming it’s change...

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This is probably why crocs are so popular.

I own a pair a couple of sizes too large for winter, so that I can step into them without even taking my slippers off.

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My slippers are practically giant socks, just fleece-lined and grip soled.

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Lol I just buy them from the local shops, but if you search for sherpa lined slipper socks or fleece lined slipper socks the same sort of thing comes up!

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Pretty sure he needs conflict to stay in power and he needs power to shield him.

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Omg! Como un estudiante mal de Español (y solo Duolingo), estoy muy emocionada porque entiendes mis palabras!!! Soy de New Zealand, solo entiendo un poco de tu hablo. Hola y kia ora!

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Yes, it's from the Maori language, but is widely used by everyone. It just means "hi" (literally, have life/health).

I like trying to read the Español but I don't think my understanding is good enough to speak yet!

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Gracias por esto. Sí, claro, eres cierta!! Soy viejo y mi cabeza no es buena aprender ahora - soy demasiado veijo tiener "músculos idioma" grandes ahora, es verdad! Pero yo estudio para divertido, y intento. Gracias para hables conmigo!

(To be honest I am very surprised at how much I have learned from Duolingo!)

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Lo siento! Nuevo Zelando, gracias!

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That's transposing it how we sound to them, though!

If the above were pronounced in a baseline kiwi accent the U would just get deeper. The vowel shift goes the other way if I'm to recreate their pronunciation using my own accent:

Fehr ned ik (US)

Foe net eck (UK)

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Fair enough but what word do you use instead of enshittification? It filled a gap in the language.

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Before I reply I just wanna say I'm not trying to fight or argue I'm just quite interested in language.

All your context-dependent examples are verbs, whereas "enshitification" is a noun - a state of being. That's why it fills a gap in English.

Otherwise you need an entire sentence to describe that process A happened to B thing and the result is C state.

It doesn't seem intellectual at all to me, I mean it has the word shit in it and its closest contender for meaning is probably "fuckedupness".

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Oh well, can't win em all. Have a good week!

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