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  • Aeder@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I can't believe it
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    3 hours ago

    Like recently where I am, it’s pushing “anticuado” as “outdated”. Except that is obviously “Antiquated”.

    Don’t rely on word similarity without checking dictionaries, otherwise you will end up like people who think “bizarro” means “bizarre”. False friends are a thing.

    “obliguado” doesn’t seem like a real Spanish word to me, and the RAE dictionaries seem to agree with me.

    Also it’s very common for certain words to have no equivalent translation with the same root, so you will have to settle for “words used in the target language in this situation” even if they don’t quite get the nuances across.




  • Aeder@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•True love
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    While I agree it’s creepy if you specifically only go after women who are way younger, I feel the way this kind of discourse talks about these types of relationships essentially says “Women have no agency and no power to resist being with a man twice their age”.

    It feels like a lot of attacks on weird men’s behaviour are actually just misogynistic underneath, in a “it’s the duty of the man to do everything right because women are just dumb children incapable of taking decisions” kind of way.