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TehBamski to Wrong Takeaway English ·
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Be nice to linguistics, or else they might purposefully fuck up their alien translations so that an alien invasion occurs, in spite of those that were mean to them.

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Be nice to linguistics, or else they might purposefully fuck up their alien translations so that an alien invasion occurs, in spite of those that were mean to them.

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    “The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”

    —Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (1989-11-08)

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    Reading this title, I might risk an alien invasion.

    • theareciboincident@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Titlegore like this is why Ye Wenjie did nothing wrong

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    The word your looking for is “linguist”, a person who studies language. Linguistics is the study of language.

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      Also “to spite”, not “in spite of”

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    Once more, in english?

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      Don’t piss off the interpretor cause they might intentionally mistranslate something so that it causes a war.

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      deleted by creator

  • nocturne@sopuli.xyz
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    To spite those that were mean to them maybe?

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    Be nice to the astrophysicist too, do you remember what happens with Ye Wenjie?

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