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" bear-favour", is a favour that gives bad results

Almost the same in German, "Bärendienst" means a bear's service, means a bad service or one which did much more damage than help, usually unintentionally

The Germans have a similar expression, "Unkraut vergeht nicht", it means something like "weeds do not go away", but it is usually used in a self-deprecating way, for example as a response to wishes for good health when ill.

In most languages, "get well soon" is expressed as good wishes. In Russian, they use the imperative form, so it is like an order or a command. It's буд здоров(а), which is literally "be healthy" as a command. They also use it as "bless you" after sneezing. (For those whoe can't read Cyrillic, in Latin it's approximately said like "bud zdarov(a)". The -a suffix is the female version, without it is male.)

In French, the expression "du coup" (it means something like "therefore" or "so" or "thus") can be used in place of like 10 other expressions.

• Ainsi
• Donc
• Alors
• Tout à coup
• Soudainement
• En conclusion
• Si je comprends bien
• De ce fait
• Ce qui fait que
• En conséquence
• Consequémment

Is all being replaced by "du coup".

In German, capitalisation matters. In contrast with many other languages, nouns must be capitalised, or it changes the meaning. For example:

• Helft den Armen vögeln
• Helft den armen Vögeln

Notice how only the capitalisation changed. The first sentence means "help the poor to fuck" while the second sentence means "help those poor birds".

Not possible in the USA

More like "va chier"

I use Debian btw

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.

the country has been saying it wrong ever since

If by country you mean the USA (and its northern colony). Literally everyone else in every language that matters spells it aluminium.

Also, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element.

That's not unusual, my company has an internal K8saaS product as well, so there are a lot of clusters

Fascism has happened exactly once in modern history.

Are you putting the fascist regimes of Germany, Italy and Spain into one basket? Also the current regime in Russia?

That would be nice. It's probably going to be war though.

Chaos and war, probably.

Thank you for spelling aluminium correctly.

A misconception being common does not make it correct.

I am trying to demonstrate how absurd it is to use the demonym for one region of the world to refer to the inhabitants of a completely different part of the world

Right then, you Caribbean. What do you mean you're not from the Caribbean? What does that have to do with anything? That word is obviously referring to the population of the British Isles. Duh.

That's how this sounds. It's ridiculous.

Why is "public health care" called "single payer" in the USA? It sounds so weird. Everybody pays for everybody, it's not a single payer.

Give me another apple. (Another: one more of the same)

We regret to inform you that we chose an other candidate. (An other: a different one)

But the form "an other" is extremely rare, most likely because it is confusing in spoken language.

gdb: Am I a joke to you?

It’s a bunch of feel good BS to con people out of their money.

Would it be an assholish move to point to the religion of Jesus himself in this context? I believe it would, and thus I won't.