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|  Message 3765  |
|  Paul Quinn to Ardith Hinton  |
|  Anecdotes about translators  |
|  01 Oct 21 17:54:51  |
 TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A46 MSGID: 3:640/1384 31a7a3fc REPLY: 1:153/716.0 156817a1 TZUTC: 1000 Hi!Ardith, On 30 Sep 2021, Ardith Hinton said the following... AH> When I looked up "twit" in THE FREE DICTIONARY I found quite a AH> lot of stuff you might find useful, including definitions & synonyms. AH> In summary... a twit is a foolish, stupid, annoying, and/or AH> insignificant person. I'm guessing that is more or less what you were AH> thinking of here. :-) Down here, a 'Twit' was long=known as a "pregnant goldfish". Hence the insult. Is that dictionary a revised version of history by milennials or one compiled by ignorant new world-ers? ;) Cheers, Paul. --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Linux/32) * Origin: Quinn's Rock - stuck in a Linux VM, again! (3:640/1384) SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 19/10 30/0 90/1 103/705 105/81 120/340 123/131 SEEN-BY: 129/305 154/10 203/0 218/700 221/0 1 6 360 226/30 227/114 SEEN-BY: 227/702 229/424 426 664 700 1017 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 SEEN-BY: 261/38 280/5003 282/1038 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 320/219 322/757 SEEN-BY: 342/200 423/81 460/58 640/1138 1321 1384 712/848 920/1 3634/12 SEEN-BY: 5020/1042 5058/104 PATH: 640/1384 221/1 301/1 229/426 |
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