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It’s always funny when anglo writers looking to express a specific idea casually pluck a cool ready-made monosyllabic phrase from their language’s unlimited supply and Romance language translators just curl up in the fœtal position and cry. I’m reading a text in which the American author talks about ‘Haves’ vs ‘Have-Nots’ vs ‘Have-Mosts’ —the poor French translator translated this as ‘ceux-qui-ont’ (the French language: don’t worry I’m just getting warmed up), ‘ceux-qui-n’ont-pas’ (nice we’ve doubled the syllable count but we mustn’t falter), and the beautiful ‘ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres’ (300% expansion ratio let’s gooo! we did it great work everybody.) From 2 to 8 syllables—the minute I saw that bulky thing I knew it had to be Have-Mosts in the original and I was giggling. The anglo author happily proceeds to use the phrase ‘Have-Mosts’ 5 times per paragraph because why not! it’s so quick and wieldy :) we don’t actually need the word wieldy ‘cause it’s just the normal state of our language <3 meanwhile you can feel the French translator’s desperation grow as she is reduced to juggling with “those” and “the latter” to avoid summoning her creature. Eventually she reaches the acceptance stage and uses ceux-qui-ont-plus-que-tous-les-autres again like, it’s my monster. I shouldn’t reject it

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Can’t explain it but they’re really cunty in this photo

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Jeremy be like "Mangle bit my face off!"

*10 mins later* Me and the bestie

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me

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"You're glorifying a fictional murderer!" NO I'M NOT!!!!!!I'm sexualizing him.

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i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to

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why are all the star trek games based on war and ship command and galactic fighting and war. i want diplomat simulator. i want skyrim for star trek. i wanna talk to a bunch of aliens about their farming rivalry and then go to the planet where everyones an italian mobster. i dont give a shit about upgrading the torpedoes on my battle cruiser to level up and destroy other ships in the New Online MMORPG. i want my entire ship to malfunction because an alien laid an egg in the nacelles and then i want to fix it by raising the alien as my own and then tossing it into space. what’s so hard to understand.

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Taylor swift is to music as Colleen Hoover is to literature

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Blue space dork is my favorite enby and canonically his shoes are not big enough

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The Lancetfish is a species that looks like it comes straight out of a realistic fantasy world building project.

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A young Warden has to keep an eye on even younger Megamind and Minion. They've had a long day of causing mischief and collapsed as soon as they got caught.

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Pov: Megamind comes to you for advice on how to stop four villains at once, what do you tell him?

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I LOV HERRR

Another sim yet again! :3 (I am depressed)

A zombie cause why not?

"I'm never filling these quotation spaces with anything" - me 5/2/24 at 11:34 pm

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"Whale" I didn't have enough time for her, but the light here is nice~

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smoking my little weed