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Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)?
  • In Brazil we have "É de cair o cu da bunda" "Makes the butthole fall out of the ass", which indicates something impressive/unexplainable.

    And "Que que tem o cu com as calças?" "What does the ass have to do with the pants?". Which asks for the relation of two completely different things. It is generally used as doubting there's a relationship at all.

  • Multilingual folks: what are some odd idioms in your language(s)?
  • tnh I think the spilled milk saying is more about things that you can't control / already happened.

    and the Brazilian saying is more like "it's ok to let a little more milk get spilled", however I can't think of a nice way of saying that.

    edit: thinking more about that, maybe the milk saying can be used for this, but not necessarily

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  • Y'all don't have a government option?

    In Brazil we can send money to each other between bank accounts. There's even this new and fast system called "Pix", in which you can, in just some seconds, create a code of a payment request, show it as QRCode, scan it and pay it. It's pretty neat.

  • NO! TIMMY! NOT THE 45 DEGREE ANGLES!
  • When I was little, I got to know some of my mother's gay friends.

    she just said smth like "they are a couple", and i got it. It's not difficult to teach the existence of gay couples. Unless you teach that couples are specifically man and woman.

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  • tbh I always think about it as 'p' is a pointer to int

    therefore *p is an int

    therefore I should call it int *p;

    however, of course, you should use what your team prefers. Having good yet inconsistent style is worst than mid consistent style.

  • Okay which one of you are lying
  • it may be

    but the usability is about being common

    if everyone (or almost everyone) used it, it would be useful

    tho, I still like metric better because it matches our base

    but if ppl around you use irish to mean *1.27, go for it

  • Good luck web devs
  • true

    however

    everything would be fluid in the layout and you would need to set what should go on top of what. And having this feature doesn't seem worth the hassle of making if work, or even using it.

    Imagine trying to type in a 'fluid' keyboard

    TBH tho, seems like a cool gimmick for some apps.

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