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Dieguito 🦝@feddit.it to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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Mum wake up, new division just came through

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Mum wake up, new division just came through

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Dieguito 🦝@feddit.it to Linguistics Humor@sh.itjust.worksEnglish ·
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An isogloss or a political border? 🥶🥶🥶

Cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/1728128

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    In Estonia we don’t say it like that usually. It’s not wrong but we usually just say “pistaatsiapähkel”.

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      That short?

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        Yeah. It pretty much means pistachio nut.

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          I was pretty much joking about how that’s longer than any of the words on the map in OP. But apparently it wasn’t a good joke.

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            I liked it

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              Thanks!

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