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In American English, 'Adam' and 'atom' are pronounced the same.

> Android is one of the most popular operating systems in the world.

More accurately, "as of December 2025, Android, which uses the Linux kernel, is the world's most popular operating system with 38.94% of the global market, followed by Windows with 29.99%, iOS with 15.66%, macOS with 2.14%, and other operating systems with 10.78%."


Never say never...

K[ryptic!]*

*I appreciate mathematical notation, but this is not it.


What does price have to do with anything.

I see a huge problem with Latin alphabet (with or without modifications) being shared among different languages is that it is almost never transliterated from one such language to another (I think the Baltic and the Slavs may still be doing that), which can make foreign names look like something imagined by a low-key LLM. How am I supposed to say 'Andrzei Chrząszcz' or, for an easier one, say, 'Buôn Ma Thuột.'

Curiously, some people insist that the year zero AD was a thing.


The Chinese selling Portuguese souvenirs made in China?


That is all over the place in Europe, unfortunely.

The world complains about China, yet gladly pays for their stuff instead of local prices.


A lot of which are Sino-Portuguese from Macau that moved (or their families moved) after Macau was returned to China...


Learn to read Spanish already…


"Drops" feels like too strong a word, given that this is merely a switch from one default to another.


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