Do you not hear the words in your head while reading?

I mean, I said “coin” but really I didn’t even mean “coin” as in “currency” but “coin-shaped piece of plastic that I have for this purpose”. The system has been in use here for decades now and I’d imagine that people using currency for carts are the exception. We all have the plastic substitute coins on our keychains. Was there a lot of pushback against the “coin operated” carts in Canada that nobody bothered with distributing replacement chips?

I may also have played dirty with the Rocky Horror reference ;)

Their phones contain AO3.

If I had kids, I’d rather they stay on their phones.

FICK.

lol fuck, I knew someone would call me out on my rusty Japanese. Thank you!

ㅋㅋ which is “lol”

Gamers may be familiar with “kkkkkk” because that’s what you’d type on a keyboard to get ㅋㅋㅋㅋ :D

Edit: Gawwwd don’t listen to me today. This isn’t exactly correct. And I struggle to explain transliteration. Basically, the character ㅋ corresponds to “k”. I need sleep.

First things that comes to mind: Japanese for “to laugh” is 笑う “warau”. The equivalent of “lol” then started as 笑. Over time it evolved into just the first Latin letter “wwwww”. Which kind of looks like grass. And because Japanese people love word play, logically the next step was 草 “kusa” - which means “grass” and now also “lol”.

Anyway, sentences in languages that use logograms, such as Japanese, are generally shorter since they just use one character where languages that use Latin letters need several (“Want to hang out tonight after school?” - 授業後今晩遊ぼう？). So standard text message character limits are plenty to convey A LOT of stuff in Japanese. (EDIT: See comment below about the quality of that Japanese sentence lol)

You can make sentences more compact if you want to: 今晩　遊？ is not a complete sentence but the essential parts that carry the meaning, “this evening” and “hang out”, are there so if you’re in a hurry that’ll do.

Going further back in time might be more interesting, the Japanese did some crazy shit with pagers: https://www.japanesewithanime.com/2018/02/spelling-words-using-numbers.html

Record it from all angles at all opportunities and play the video at their wedding. Until then, sustain yourself on the antici

I can identify them in a police line-up of geometry stuff.

Diebadiebadi 🎵

Die CDU-Führung stellt sich in der Angelegenheit klar hinter Spahn. Der frühere Gesundheitsminister habe “die volle Unterstützung” der Parteigremien

Was heißt denn das? Fandet ihr das gut so? Kann man so lassen? Ihr seht kein Problem? 😑

I’m “got the coin back that I put in the cart when I got it”.

Do you HAVE to be so unromantic? It obviously proved his NEVER-ENDING LOVE for his wife! Does that count for NOTHING?! /s

The thought of running around with a 5 million dollar ring gives me heart palpitations.

By driving my car thoughtfully, the fuel lasts longer. It follows that more thoughtfulness will enlarge my car’s fuel tank.

And here I was thinking I was showing you some life-altering possibilities you hadn’t considered lol

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