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• PrimeErective@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Or sport?

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  • then_three_more@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    C m8 they’res only 1 kinda reel sport nd thats footie.

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• onion@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Germans do

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• slurpinderpin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Yeah I get it, but I’m more curious why it’s said differently?

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You should be asking yourself that. ;)

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  • nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s usually a long explanation for these types of things which most of the time boils down to “because that’s how people have been saying it and it’s become the norm.”

    Many linguistical mistakes have been overused to the point of them changing their meaning. Take “decimation”. It used to mean to kill 1 in every 10. Because it sounds cool and has been used in a lot of media, it now mainly means to kill or destroy a large part of something.

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The meaning of “siege” has gone from sitting outside a castle or town until everyone starves to just about any kind of military action involving a building. Probably partly because the Iran embassy Siege off the 80s was endlessly represented on TV by footage of the SAS breaking the siege by abseiling through the windows.

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• I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Do you guys also say Geographies? Or Histories? Do you take Arts classes? You take Physics, do you also have Chemistries and Biologies?

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