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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

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[–] Cornpop@lemmy.world 24 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I get it though. The red tip is the goblin and they are trying to say it’s big and round.

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 75 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's actually a mistranslation from Swedish to English. It's supposed to say waterproof.

[–] GreenPlasticSushiGrass@kbin.social 25 points 8 months ago

I'm going to choose not to believe this and maintain that Sweden was metal before there was metal.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 months ago

as a swede i can confirm we can barely use that word thanks to the influence of english, there are a bunch of words like that which english completely ruined..

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