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user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Petya Ransomware Hits At Least 65 Countries; Microsoft Traces It To Tax Software

Makes sense. I knew a Peter once. He was a dick.





user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    He was a dick.

...you either are making a very sly reference or have no idea about the depth of that puddle.

kleinbl00  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

In English, "peter" is slang for penis. Oddly enough, "dick" is also slang for penis.

Puns rarely survive ESL.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I was referring to the fact that it's just about the same in Russian, pertinent to the story.

Don't treat me like I'm clueless just because I didn't know a thing. There's nothing other to learning a language than learning.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Sorry ThatFanficGuy. I thought by your response that you understood the joke. Hence the wink.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I figured that's what you thought. No apology necessary. At least now you know what I understood - and now, you speak a bit more Russian than you did an hour ago.

kleinbl00  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Chillax dude I was trying to be helpful. I know exactly zero jokes or innuendos in Russian.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I know exactly zero jokes or innuendos in Russian.

You also speak zero Russian. I, on the other hand, am here, conversing with the natives in an almost-fluent way where no one would suspect I'm from anywhere else on the planet. Then I'm given shit over my E being SL because I didn't get a local reference.

Dude, get me: I'm not trying to make it seem like you did a bad thing. Your explanation helped. The matter is: I'm supposed to be good at this, with you in particular praising my fluency in plain text. Even if I wasn't, what the fuck does it matter if English is my second language? Does it make me a second-rate speaker all of a sudden? Of course not - and I don't appreciate being treated like one over a small misunderstanding.

kleinbl00  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hang on there, buddy. Nobody is giving you shit over anything. There is exactly one offended party in this conversation, and the rest of us are backpedalling furiously to figure out why. Tone-wise, "Puns rarely survive ESL" was meant apologetically, not antagonistically.

It matters that English is your second language because you've grown up sheep-dipped into a different set of idioms, a different taxonomy of slang, double entendres that are anchored differently and a cultural milieu that contains a different sample-set of touchstones. Here's an entertaining list of things that Americans fucked up when attempting to transliterate slang into foreign languages - the stuff isn't obvious.

My understanding was that you didn't get the joke. I was attempting to explain the joke, while also offering a reason as to why you didn't get the joke. I can't stop you from being offended, but I can reiterate that it most assuredly wasn't my intent.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You know, I'm not gonna reply to that right now. I realized that I feel patronized by the remarks about my "good English", and I have no idea why, so I'm gonna give myself some time to think about it.

What I'm gonna say is: I know you meant no harm. I've known you long enough to say it even without your explaining yourself.

user-inactivated  ·  2464 days ago  ·  link  ·  

;)