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Old May 17, 2022, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by atisketatasket View Post
This reminds me of the time the German magazine Der Spiegel ran a cover story on the Queen.

The cover headline? Die Queen.

Obviously to Germans die is the feminine article, but to English speakers it was quite a different message.
Context is key.
The shorthand cnt would not bother me because of the context and I would not have gone elsewhere with what it could mean because of context. I do have some words that can catch my attention -but I usually just laugh because it is my thing -not the innocent word or abbreviation's problem
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