Comment on Anon takes the welding pill

morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Webster’s dictionary defines wedding as “the fusing of two metals with a hot torch.”

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  • morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    that’s quite perfect ^^

    in German they use the word for assembling 2 big mechanical parts together, like the carriage and the body of a car

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    • the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I don’t know German but i love its penchant for just welding words together seemingly more often than other languages

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      same in English

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  • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And do you, Phyllis, take Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, to be your lawfully wedded husband?

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