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the reason is that in ukrainian, "як" (which can be transliterated in the latin alphabet as "yak") means "as", apparently.

there are other less extreme problems that it would have even without the detect language issue but this one was very funny

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english translation 

today i discovered how the translations of metazooa work

it's horrible.
if you have spanish as your language, for example... the game will use google translate to translate the common names of animals from english to spanish. however, in fact, it translates them from "detect language" to spanish.

this game thinks that in spanish they say "como" (aka "as") to refer to yaks.

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hoy descubrí como funciona las traducciones de metazooa.com/ .

es horrible.
si tenés castellano como tu idioma, por ejemplo... el juego usaría google translate para traducir los nombres comunes de los animales de inglés a castellano. sin embargo, de hecho, traduce los nombres de "detectar idioma" a castellano.

este juego cree que en castellano dicen "como" para referir a los yakes.

alcohol, i guess, but mostly about words 

it is my considered opinion that makers of mixed drinks are entitled to call themselves alchemists

programming posting 

well, i got it installed. carelessly i installed it to a place that isn't actually in the library search path by default but that is fixable

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programming posting 

meson seems like it could be really cool.

build tool that can automatically fetch and build dependencies if they're missing.

sadly upon attempting to build any project using it one quickly discovers that this functionality does not actually work

latest unison answer: “Great Vowel Shift”

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not sure swings at the bat is a real idiom for reasons of you don’t swing at a bat in any bat sport i think.

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not the first time we’ve answered a question in perfect sync. but to be fair we have watched like four or five seasons of University Challenge together. so a lot of swings at the bat.

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get you a girl who answers quiz show questions "spontaneous generation" at the exact same moment as you

instagram is somehow the least usable social networking service. i’m a regular tumblr user.

@Lady @aescling they do famously have identifying marks on their asses

food 

locro kinda rocks btw. stew is best food group after grains. but there's maize in locro so it works out

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food 

plan D did in fact work out. sofi also actually had a somewhat more seasonable if slightly less dessert-y option in mind so we might have gone for that as plan E instead of the unseasonable one

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food 

strike that, time for #4. with luck we won't need to go to the rather unseasonable #5.

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food 

currently on independence day gathering vegan dessert plan #3

very convenient when my internet drops the moment i end a voice call

poképosting 

our first eeveelution in PLA was sylveon

food 

empanadas also good even if not as amazing as the medialunas

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very amusing that the spanish wikipedia article for mate makes sure to clarify that water boils at 100 °C at sea level

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