#Actually I cant speak Japanese
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ああ おはよう。 お久しぶりだったね…
Oh, hello. Long time no see.
2023.2.22
逢坂大河
#toradora#Aisaka Taiga#トラドラ!#逢坂大河#じつは 日本語を 話していません#まだ#この メーセージは G**GLE TRANSLATE 強力な(ライフ)サポートと 使ったのは 書きました#This message was written using heavy G**gle Translate (life)support#Actually I cant speak Japanese#yet#sorry#しかし#日本語を 話したいので 勉強しています。#although#I want to speak Japanese so I'm studying.#私は まだ そこに いません。#I am not there yet
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At which point did you realise that the plot of IW is ass? I've seen people complain only about the ending or the halfway point where the teams separate, while I was already actively rolling my eyes like four-five chapters in
i think the moment i fully accepted that IW's story was. Definitely A Story was the moment ebina announced 'bleach japan'. like i think leading up to that point i was thinking to myself 'oh i hope i see X happen' or being like 'i wonder where this is going' and that sort but the proverbial bucket of ice was definitely that moment
#infinite wealth spoilers#snap chats#what reaaaaally hammered it in too if it wasnt obvious already was the execution of the jimas/daigo like that still irks me LMAO#i cant even remember what chapter that happened in i just know when it did i was utterly pissed#i think i started to take things less seriously once bryce entered the picture but thats only because of how distracting his VA was#like much love the JP voice actors who try to speak english and japanese but i just cant act like it's not incredibly distracting#esp when the character is supposed to be white yk what i mean- or at the very least their first language is supposed to be english#typically i can look over that thing if its a one or two time kind of deal but he had to speak in english much longer than others#im just rambling about bryce tho this aint bout him. i mean he could be a part of it the cult was executed really sloppily#it might have been the introduction of bryce actually ... i remember thinking to myself 'oh brother' with the whole messiah thing LMAO#maybe it was when kiryu told us his cancer cam from radiation instead of. smoking 💀 ESPECIALLY not even five chapters in#like straight out the gate you just wanna drop that on us mr I Can Do Everything Myself I Cant Worry Others ok#thats a post for another day tho im EVERYWHERE#POINT IS this is not about Retrospect this is about First Impressions and memory warps over time#but i know for a fact i found the bleach japan thing utterly ridiculous and was squinting at the plot the entire time thereafter#like ive said this a million times at this point but although i love IW for it's gameplay (pardon some nitpicks like lack of shortcuts)#its story really feels so messy and had much to be desired. which is so sad after the wonderful stories rgg has been making since 0..#BUT OH WELL im still excited to replay it in english. god willing i ever get the time#i still wanna finish lost judgment <- isnt even halfway through the game#and i wanna do a fun stream Maybe with YK2 but ill get into that when i get into that#if youve read this far. thanks LOL id say sorry for the novel but thats what we expect of me at this point
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whenever the ""other"" maria is talking she refers to herself in the third person. hmm
#well. when she refers to herself its written as ''I so and so'' in the text but she says her own name when she actually speaks#i dont know japanese so i cant differentiate well enough when shes saying her own name or saying I to refer to herself#but its interesting. but also maybe shes been doing it literally the whole time and i only just noticed who knows
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my favorite thing is watching youtube videos talking abt stuff that requires sources and then going into the comments and seeing ppl give actual sourced information on what the youtube video got wrong
#every time <3#when youtubers r like yes this blog post from 2008 w unverified claims not backed up by anyone is actually a source#bcuz its in english and i cant read japanese and this mystery takes place in japan so all the other info is in japanese ^_^#no im not going to just hire translation and research help with all my youtuber money#surely no one who can speak japanese can point out my sources r worthless in the comments#oh no ppl who can speak japanese pointed out my sources were worthless in the comments! i couldnt have predicted that!
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the intro song for the whole cake island arc is a banger & i was wondering like why???? its namie amuro. u kno, of inuyasha fame.
"oh but what about eps 493-516??? that's also namie amuro"
u see. 95% of the time i skip the intro bc 90% of the time the intro is bad. & im impatient.
#pirate posting#hello i still know the words do 'come' by namie amuro#(by which i mean i know the general phonemes but no clue whats actually being said bc i cant speak japanese)#(can i sing along to it? yes. do i know what im saying? no. do i know if im pronouncing everything right? also no.)
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at first i was like eh maybe not over Link calling Zelda by her name before the Calamity, perhaps too restrictive an environment for a fundamental shift like that, especially as repressed as they are lol
but know i could ?? see it ?? theyve clearly had some very personal conversations, which doesnt mean he HAS dropped formality 100%, but the level of familiarity is really high even before the world ends at them lol
#i do quite like the idea of forgoing addressing her as princess as being a relic of the time before thougg#i can see it happening maybe once or twice before but after its just freer yano ??#she's the last hylian noble and everyones willing to jump onboard with her plans right off the bat#which is FAIR because she might be a 17 yr old girl but a 17 yr old girl who just spiritually battled hatred itself for 100 years#and then ripped a divine nuke on it and evaporated the fucker lmfao#(she's also compassionate and intelligent but yknow)#the actual STRUCTURE of hylian society just collapsed in the age of burning fields so like ??#aside from having an easy choice of defacto leader#(i cant remember the exact terminology but im sure Japanese refers to her as priestess princess a few times)#theres not like ... much formality to speak of yknow ??#she seems to be on perfectly normal speaking terms with a LOT of people all over Hyrule like its no problem because it ISNT to her right ??#anyway i need to go the fuck to bed lol#jesus i need some normal brainwaves atm#rory's ramblings#zelda blogging#botw/totk blogging
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Baby Kenobi
i don’t know how to write serious summaries/synopses, so you get this: obi-wan gets ambushed with the daughter he didn’t know he fathered while she’s roaming the galaxy looking for mama in a sort of reverse finding nemo. shenanigans and accidental fix-its ensue.
warning for below the cut: none that i can think of, aside from an extremely confused narrator
Stitchup hates everything about this.
“Look, sir, we’re just travelers,” he insists to the trio of bounty hunters, simultaneously glad for and resenting that this mission required he be in civilian clothes and not his plastoid shell. Behind him, General Kenobi is calm and still, letting Stitchup be the focus of the standoff. After all, Stitchup might have a face that’s repeated by a few billion others, but that can be fixed with a bit of contouring — and the hunters are from a race of sentients that are wired more for overarching shapes than small details, meaning his voice is the thing most likely to give him away as a clone in this situation. Jedi High General Obi-Wan Kenobi, on the other hand — his face is far more singular, and his accent is very distinct, which means he has a much higher chance of being recognized if he speaks up.
The hunters buzz, clearly unconvinced. “Sure,” the lead hunter says, the translator at their throat crackling faintly. “Listen, bucko, you can’t seriously think we’re that stupid. General Kenobi’s ship crashed here, and I can’t think of any other reason for a clone trooper to be here. Can you?”
Motherfucker. He’s been suppressing his accent, dammit! “I’m not a trooper,” he tries, knowing his General is about to do something idiotic if he can’t de-escalate and get them out of here. “I’m just a traveling doctor,” he says levelly. “That’s all.”
The lead hunter buzzes again, derision dripping from their stance. They take a step closer—
“Papa,” a young voice says, and only sheer professionalism save Stitchup from jumping about a mile in the air. He turns to see a small humanoid girl trotting up to General Kenobi with Great Purpose, going right up to him and tugging on his sleeve. “Papa,” she says again, a soft, chirping rumble beneath her voice. “I can’t find the right tools — they’re all for droids ‘n engines.”
To Stitchup’s utter shock, General Kenobi doesn’t miss a single beat before playing along, bending down to meet the girl and chirping back.
“That’s alright, Anate,” he says gently, his Coruscanti accent somehow completely gone and replaced with something else. “We’ll just keep looking, yes?” Then he makes this — crooning, trilling sound, and the girl responds in kind with a warbling purr.
“Okay,” the girl says, reaching out her arms when General Kenobi stands in the universal request to be picked up. Again, General Kenobi plays along as flawlessly as if the two of them had rehearsed this beforehand, scooping her into his arms and settling her against his chest with a quiet “Hup!” She makes another purring noise, shuffling as best as she can to get more comfortable, then finally turns her attention to Stitchup and the bounty hunters. “Hi,” she says, peering at the hunters past thick, feathery white hair that covers half her face. “Are you policemen?”
The droning buzz of the hunters is, this time, very clearly uncomfortable. “Policemen,” the hunter on the left echoes carefully, stepping forward and crouching, their blaster holstered in the same movement. “Sorry, kid, my translator doesn’t recognize that. Wanna tell me what that means?”
#baby kenobi#baby kenobi first drafts#character: Fujioka Tsukiko#character: Obi-Wan Kenobi#character: clone medic Stitchup#pov: stitchup#i dunno how everybody else finds out that obi-wan has a kid#all i know is that anakin specifically blows a g-ddamn GASKET when he does#because. what. what??? what do you MEAN you have a biological child???#that's his out-loud knee-jerk reaction anyway#inwardly he is also going Oh Shit I'm Being Replaced#this is not helped by the fact that tsukiko doesn't seem to like him all that much . . .#she keeps scrunching up her nose when she sees him?? the kark's up with that??#tsukiko meanwhile is thinking to herself 'why the fuck does he smell like stale blood'#(he smells like stale blood because of the tusken massacre. only she doesn't know that. and nobody else will for a while#it's just gonna be a neat little secret percolating on the back of the plot-stove for a little bit it's fine)#I CANT BELIEVE I FORGOT TO SAY THIS PEOPLE ASKED WHEN I POSTED ON DISCORD#‘anate’ is not actually her name. uh. as evidenced by the character tag#originally it was like a bastardized form of ‘anata’ ‘cause tsukiko speaks japanese#but then i went ‘oh yeah obi-wan wouldn’t know that’#so now it’s a generic stewjoni word for like. ‘little girl’ but affectionate#anyway yeah. tsukiko does in fact give her real name later
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I cant go to sleep i have to do like 4 hours worth of duolingo for no apparent reason
#me most days: yeah ill just mindlessly practice some hiragana i know by heart to keep my streak up#me other days: i legit cant stop doing lessons#(its bc its mostly review so i can get a good grade in it. love being told im smart)#i test out of units occasionally but half the time it just throws a bunch of kanji at me#instead of the grammar based questions that i actually know#i would be so good and powerful at japanese were it not for kanji......#bel speaks#unfortunately i have to wake up in. 6.5 hours. i rlly need to sleep
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its really interesting to listen to covers of aimers song bc imo no one really captures the emotion she puts into her singing
#her singing is more hm#breathy? its strong but not powerful#i think?#and a lot of cover artists have strong powerful voices but at least the ones i listen to struggle to put that softer breathiness into their#interpretations#like you know?#admittedly i havent heard as many japanese covers usually i listen to english ones mostly for the transliteration interpretation#it could be a product of language#english doesnt really lend itself to softer tones#like you can hut youd have to really eat the hard T and D and other similar sounds to get that same softness#like enunciate less?#<- i am speaking out of my ass btw#like again im not saying you cant be soft in english like obviously you can people sing like that all the time#its just ive personally noticed that a lot of english singers like. enunciate so much? which like yeah you need to be clear in your singing#so people can actually hear and understand what youre saying but like. have you ever listened to musicals? the way the actors like land so#heavily on the T's and D's is wild like it starts making your music start feeling sanitized and like#as formal and proper english as can be#it doesnt lend itself to conveying emotions bc idk abt you but /i/ dont enunciate so hard#like im jot saying mumble but like. give some freedom to your words? let them flow together and stuff#like not to criticize random people on youtubes singing LMAO like i do like the covers dont get me wrong#but again i dont think ive ever seen someone capture the style or emotion that aimer does and it got me thinking#sometimes i listen to people sing and it gives me the same feeling i got when i lhear commercials on tv in spanish#like that is the most lifeless sanitized basic ass spanish ive ever heard like they are trying so hard to be neutral and it just ends up sou#sounding unnatural bc no one fucking talks like that like come one#idk what im talking abt now ANYWAYS#listen to aimer <3#michi tag
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do u think kiwami 3 would have a dub or would they not do that for remakes
they should have a dub cause itd make me giggle
#snap chats#i wanna know who'd VA english mine ... i need to know what he sounds like in my head ....#my brain cant speak japanese mk .......#but on the real i personally think they'll have a dub. i dont see why not#they didnt dub ishin cause they didnt know how to accurately translate the script for actual english speaking Apparently#but for a Hypothetical YK3 remake I Dont See Why Not. fuck it we got chinese dubs and subs in the budget now anythings possible
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I'm biding my time. I'm saving my energy. Once January 2025 comes and the first episode of mhyk anime comes out I'm going to turn so annoying it'd be like I'm a living breathing advertisement for mhyk itself. I'm so excited for the anime orz... I wanna see it already, I wanna see Cain walk around (without his gay ass side ponytail which is a bit of a pity, but it's Cain so I'm happy anyway).
#aria rants#I WANNA SEE AKIRA-CHAN MOVE AND SPEAK AND INTERACT WITH EVERYONE SO BADLY!!!#im going to screenshot both cain and akira chan. cain for my discord pfp. akira for my tumblr pfp. i love em both i need em as pfps#would you all still love me if i become so annoying bout an anime? /j#yall gotta understand the mhyk anime is my chance at spreading mhyk propaganda#i cant do that rn cuz the game isnt for everyone (gacha with tap simulator gameplay not to mention only available in japanese)#i rarely play the game too so i understand. the only way of actually getting into mhyk rn is reading through stories#which isnt as exciting to do when just reading texts cuz the voice actors for ms1 and ms1.5 did such great jobs on it!#and sadly only a handful of stories are voiced in game so it rlly is just reading but with the anime! i can do it!#I CAN INTRODUCE IT TO PPL! and then slowly get em to read the stories once they fell in love with the characters!#AND THEN! MY GRAND SCHEME FOR MHYK TO SPREAD WILL BE REALIZED!#i sound like a deranged evil villain from a movie like im going to rule the world. i just rlly love mhyk
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mjf vanished from the roster page and cleared his twitter bio with zero fanfare, jb showed up to another promotion and ripped up a contract for dramatic effect and he's still on the roster page.
#baby nobody's gonna start a bidding war for you#njpw can keep you but i know you cant speak a word of japanese#also your girlfriend is still here#and we actually like her
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ASL brothers HAIKYUU!! AU!!!!!
Day one of Self Indulgent month for me! I love these three, i love haikyuu, i love killer whales!
(The Naval Academy is this au’s version of marines)
For those who dont know, in Haikyuu (and prob in real life too but in my experience its not as important as they make it in the anime) The "Ace" of the team is the person who primarily scores points via spiking. Theyre the Hard Hitter, basically.
Design talk👇
Originally, i was gonna make their school mascot just "The Pirates" but i couldnt figure out a clever pun with the school name so i scrapped it in favor of an animal mascot. I figured I would have a wider range of puns that way.
I landed on Orcas as the mascot because I think they really embody a pirate way of life. Theyre strong, hang out in groups of a mix of found family and their actual family, hate the rich, and theyre fun loving! And also im a bit biased because theyre my favorite animal, but hey, i said its self indulgent month, didnt I?
Their school name is a play on the word for Killer Whale (Shachi シャチ) and the word for 'knowledge' (Chishiki 知識), i just smashed the two words together. I'm very proud of myself for coming up with that given i dont speak japanese at all.
Anyway, with their designs, I was taking inspiration from orcas to match the design themes of haikyuu. Ace's hair is bleached on the underside to look like the underside of an orca's body, I made ace and sabo's eyes look more whale-like, the clip in sabo's hair is meant to resemble to spots behind orca's eyes, and I tried to make luffy's hair look more like it's round and spiking down more than i usually do.
Ace is wearing a ''way of the ace" shirt in the first picture, Luffy is wearing a shirt that just says "VOLLEY BALL" because i think it would be funny if he wore a bunch of those Zero-context-poorly-translated-random-english-words shirts that theres a bunch of in Asia. Sabo dyes his hair like delinquents do, but it doesnt much look delinquent~y because of how soft it looks. He means to do it to make him look like a delinquent though. Sabo still has his scars in this au, but he uses his hair, arm braces, and leg braces to cover them up. LUFFY AND ACE HAVE FUNKY SOCKS BECAUSE NO ONE CAN TELL THEM (or me) THEY CANT. Sabo wears athletic socks though because he's a debbie downer. He defends himself saying “It’s practical” and Ace and luffy call him “practically a Debbie Downer.”
Luffy is very good at receiving from growing up with Sabo and Ace practicing setting and spiking with eachother and assigning Luffy as Ball Boy. So he got the libero position from that cuz sabo and ace put in a good word for him. Nepotism.
I didn't feel like coming up with designs for them, but Zoro and Bepo are also on their team (theyre in the fifth image sitting on the right of the line of students). Koala and nami are student managers, Robin is the teacher manager, and Franky is the coach. all other straw hats/luffy friends, rev army comrades, and whitebeard brethren are in the stands. Im trying to keep the ages consistent with how they are in canon.
I didnt do a very in depth research, but i couldnt find what Japanese schools have as mascot costumes. and given no one wears any costumes in haikyuu for their team, i can kind of assume they dont use them over there. But unfortunately for them, I'm American. And part of the backbone of our schooling system, is Vaguely Unsettling Mascot Costumes. My sister says my design for it looks like its from Club Penguin, and i find that delightful. [moment of silence for my billions of fallen Puffles, taken from me in The Shutdown] Anyway.
I thought I was clever coming up with the equivalent of the Marines in this au being a Naval Academy. And their mascot being Seals, famously the animal that gets the absolute Worst Of It from orcas. Get shit onnnnn
I believe thats about it, thanks for coming to my ted talk :)
#my art#one piece#sabo#monkey d. luffy#asl brothers#one piece fan art#portgas d. ace#sabo the revolutionary#fire fist ace#straw hat luffy#haikyuu au#asl au#zoro and Bepo are there too#gol d. roger#monkey d garp
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The Many Languages of Dick Grayson
Apparently, according to Nightwing #54, he can speak 12, so I went on a little quest to see just how many I could identify.
Starting off with The Essential Batman Encyclopedia, the entry for Dick Grayson lists him as being trained in French, Spanish, Russian, Japanese, Mandarin, and Cantonese with having some proficiency in an unknown Romani dialect. Given there are multiple examples of him speaking these languages throughout the comics, I am inclined to trust this claim. To start, we've got several examples of French (Gotham Knights #14, Detective Comics Annual #12, Nightwing #73, Grayson #10-- also featuring Spanish)
In Grayson #1 he speaks Russian only briefly, but in Detective Comics #36 he speaks it throughout.
As far as the Chinese languages go, while I believe Dick can speak Mandarin and/or Cantonese fairly well (Batman/Superman World's Finest #3), his Hanzi recognition and literacy could use some work.
Similarly, when the Titans head off to Japan in Titans Annual #1, we have Nightwing speaking Japanese in battle; however, when it comes to the prospective job of being a manga translator in Nightwing #125, he claims he doesn't know Japanese, which leads me to believe he is only proficient in speaking Japanese/Chinese and struggles with the writing systems.
So what about the languages not covered in the encyclopedia? To start, we have another romance language: Italian (Nightwing #72).
Followed by some alleged German (Nightwing #51, JLA #44)
And conversations in Farsi (Robin #175)
While I've seen some Tumblr and Reddit posts claim he knows Kikuyu, The Power Company: Manhunter #1 only says he "brushed up" on his Kikuyu before going to Kenya, so it is unknown how much of the language he actually speaks, but to me it doesn't seem likely to be a lot.
He also, to some unknown degree, speaks Tamaranean-- at least enough to hack into an alien computer (Action Comics #842).
As far as unspoken languages go, Dick is fluent in ASL, which is proven numerous times when he communicates with Jericho (New Teen Titans 1984).
And lastly, the two languages that remain rather uncertain are Romani and Cant-- largely due to the nature of the languages themselves and their representation in comics. "Romani," for instance, has several different dialects, and when Devin Grayson introduced it for Dick (Gotham Knights #20-21, Nightwing #91), she never specified which, and based on the lines she wrote, her research into the language was questionable at best. Writers since have recognized Dick's Romani heritage, but have not otherwise suggested he retained much of the language to be considered fluent.
Cant is an even wider term than Romani and can be seen as more of jargon for a particular language than a language itself, sometimes even being called a "pseudo-language." The colloquial term for American circus cant is Carny, or "Carny speak" as Boston Brand puts it in Batman: The Brave and the Bold #14 when he and Nightwing encounter a kid who speaks it.
So... this leaves us with 11 languages Dick has notable proficiency in: English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, and ASL. And ~3 languages he has unknown proficiency in: Tamaranean, Kikuyu, Romani, and Carny/Cant (if you want to count it).
Maybe memory-loss Dick was including either Tamaranean or Kikuyu in that count from Nightwing #54, or maybe he knows some other language we haven't seen yet. Given how close the family is to the Al Ghuls, I personally think it would be cool if one of them was Arabic.
But anyway, hope you enjoyed this post! A lot I've seen covering this topic are very surface-level and label some of his more iffy languages as "fluent," so I hope this cleared things up. I've read tons of Nightwing, and I swear there are more examples, but sifting through the 1,000+ comics I've read of him is a lot haha. If y'all know of some others, let me know!
#nightwing#dick grayson#romani dick grayson#boy wonder#first robin#language#polyglot character#multilingual character#dc comics#i tried to keep the romani and carny part brief#you could write a whole essay on the languages#i could also write a whole essay on devin grayson's romani rep#or lack thereof#and its problematic nature#but that's a post for another day
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back on my bullshit
(changing interests after a few days)
(trying to learn japanese, again)
its crazy but i literally picked up crochet at the start of the year and last weekend i wanted to crochet a leaf garland thing but it took forever and i was like ehhhh and then saw a post about somebody learning japanese and i went, oooh excellent just what i need
#the sad thing is my major at uni was JAPANESE#i failed at it and dropped out cuz of many reasons lmao#still cant speak it#oh well whatever i actually had a lot of fun working on genki on the weekend#felt v accomplished and spend less time browsing mindlessly and i definitely the difference#sitting at my desk on sunday afternoon with the sun giving my room a glow while writing into my notebook what a vibe
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I think the 2 closest things I have to New Years resolutions this year is that I want a new tattoo and I want to try and learn Dutch. Tattoo because they look sick as fuck, and I want to learn Dutch for a few reason’s: 1) I am Dutch but growing up on the west coast of Canada with parents also born here, English is my first and only language (embarrassing when you consider more than half my elementary school was bilingual or polyglot)
2) The relatives over in Holland have an open invitation for me to come and stay a few weeks to see where my family is from and also have a connection to my distant family
but mostly
3) I work in retail (and still wear a mask) and have listen to conspiracy theorists and far-right lecturing me and not.. fucking... shutting.... up all god damn day. So I want to be able to pull a “no speak English” when I don’t want to speak to strangers in my free time
#i did 2 years of japanese in school#but i obv cant speak japanese to get out of conversations#so i gotta pick european language#and at least dutch makes sense#personal#rant#also throwback to the early days of my social awkwardness turning to social anxiety#when i had to grab something from a hotel room but cleaning service was in there and she asked what i needed to grab#and i just froze#so she started trying to ask if i even knew english#but terrified silence only gets you so far#also dutch swears are fun#because there are no actual swears#just obscenities#like klutzack#probs spelled that wrong
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