Old rule to remember

  • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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    24 days ago

    It took me a moment, but given that the Japanese do not have a distinction between L and R, I ended up with the suspicion that he was talking about a plague.

    Edit: Holy fuck I got double Ninja’d.

      • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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        24 days ago

        I’ll push back on that. If we swap P and L it would be ppague, llague or lpague and not prague. And if you claim autocorrect turned one of those into prague, I’ll counter that autocorrect would’ve capitalized it as a proper noun.

    • GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      I was wondering if “Albiter” should have been “Arbiter” for the same reason. As far as I can tell, the former is just a random surname; so, unless that was the main character’s name or the name of the lab it wouldn’t make much sense.

    • infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net
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      22 days ago

      Yeah he’s just ESL, gotta give the man a break. He was probably just trying to sound out an English word that he knew how to say but not how to spell.