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Who here knows what a quince is or has eaten one?

They're one of my favorite fruit, but recently I realized I've never learned their English name, because I've never seen them being portrayed or talked about in any kind of media, movie, shows etc.

So now I'm curious, if it's really that rare in other places.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quince

I'm not a big fan of the Romanian language. I find English much more elegant.

One of the things that I absolutely love about English is how easily you can create brand new words, either through altering a prefix/suffix, or by merging or concatenating 2 previous existing words. And the end result sounds just as natural as any other English word.

You really can't do the same with Romanian. No matter how much you try, "băiat-pisică" doesn't flow as easily as "cat-boy".

We literally had to copy the word "weekend", because a literal translation would be "sfârșit de săptămână", which is way too long and unwieldy, and we just don't have a way to make a good alternative.

If Vee switched to making the exact same content, but in Romanian, I'd probably unfollow him.

When Nvidia drivers crashed in Vista, people blamed Microsoft.
When Nvidia drivers crash in Linux, people blame Nvidia.

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When your laptop's wifi doesn't work in Linux, you blame Intel.
When your laptop's wifi doesn't work in Windows, you blame Microsoft.

Linux is cat friendly.

It has commands such as TOUCH, CAT, CURL or PS

>I like 1 post
>"hmmm... this person liked a single post of mine. I should follow them!"
This happens too often imo.

Valve should release an April 1st video with a voiced Gordon Freeman. But they need to find a really legendary voice actor, to where the community is conflicted on whether to reject the blasphemy of Gordon having a voice or to embrace the most perfect voice work that could ever be achieved.

Next time someone calls you gay, remember the old English definition for "gay" and remind them than you are in fact suffering from severe depression.

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