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What does that even mean? (lemmus.org)

submitted 9 months ago by sundray@lemmus.org to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 9 months ago (1 child)

In my language, "6 7" reads "six sept", which sounds like "cis het", a shorten form for "cisgender heterosexual".

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago (3 children)

"my language" - this guy trying to sneak french in here without us noticing!

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

You mean to tell me that the language where one says 3x20+7 to say sixty seven makes 6-7 mean something?!

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Excuse me. But the French damn well have a word for sixty: soixante. And the counting keeps going normally right up to 70, which reads as Sixty Ten. That goes up to Sixty Nineteen, and THEN Four Twenties.

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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 9 months ago

That's honestly so much more cursed than I thought! I seriously thought that in French it was just pure base20 but nope!

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[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 9 months ago

Of course! The French language is so meaningless that sometimes things actually mean something.

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[–] Klnsfw@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

It was an attempt not to always emphasize the fact of being French.

But obviously, even in good faith, humility does not suit us well.

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[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

If I say I am using Plasma 6.5, people will guess I use NixOS or Arch, even if I don't say that separately.
That's kinda similar, except that you were much more specific.

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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 point 9 months ago

If you say something on Lemmy, people will guess you refer to Linux

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