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this is fine but the English take of using “a(n), one” to mean “some possibly discriminate thing” yet “an-y” to mean “one indiscriminately” sure is a Take

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apparently the Irish also use “one” to mean “any” and have to say “one and not more” if they want to mean just one

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“any” has essentially the same etymology as “unique” and i gotta say not sure what the English were thinking with this one

despite having prominently displayed scrota, humans are not members of the clade Scrotifera

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@Satsuma @wallhackio have you heard of a “grass widow”

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@wallhackio @Satsuma how about frowzy

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@wallhackio @Satsuma betoken just means signify it's like the opposite of belie

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@Satsuma @wallhackio i can give you more new words do you know about betoken

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@wallhackio @Satsuma blessed babe of innocence

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@Satsuma @wallhackio i read sedgwick so i mostly think perverse means writing fujo fanfic of characters in charles dickens novels

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@wallhackio @Satsuma a perversion of the law is when you take a law and use it for something counter to its intent

in this case we took you telling us not to call you wallhackio and used it to call you something new and exciting and different (instead of just calling you caleb)

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@wallhackio @Satsuma they mean legally not sexually

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@wallhackio @Satsuma not a secret anymore

@wallhackio but yeah everybody else thought it would make debugging too useless so they refused

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@wallhackio @Satsuma yes we all know you want to do the characters

@wallhackio it's implemented in webkit! just change browsers to GNOME Web :)

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