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On Wednesday 23 of February 2011 09:18:40 Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> On 02/23/2011 01:29 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 18:16:12 Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> >> On 02/22/2011 10:54 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >>> for you wankers |
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> >> |
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> >> come on, this is public mailing list. |
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> > |
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> > then publicly, emerge a sense of humor. you wanker. |
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> Here (Finland) wanker as directly translated is in the same category as |
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> asshole. I would avoid humor that's heavily tied to culture/context on |
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> our public mailing lists as people tend to remember negative things more |
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> than the positive. |
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With context being "providing friendly info for buddies, fellow Gentoo devs |
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and associates", and culture that can be (in majority) characterized as |
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"computer geeks with specific but in general very good sense of humor", word |
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"wanker" is funny, barely insulting, and at some age can be a compliment as |
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well. |
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If there's semantics lost in literal translation from language A to language |
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B, then the problem is not with phrase itself. In such case there's a problem |
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with language B: either lack of translation formulas (from A to B) or |
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inexpressive dictionary in language B or just semantically wrong translation |
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formula chosen. |
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wanks |
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MM |
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