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this is interesting
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magyar cigany
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>american with uk flag
lmao, why not put mexico with the spanish flag?
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magyar cigany
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átok
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>>51900312
>saari
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>muz
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ö in swedish

beautiful language
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>>51900312
O because it looks like an island get it XDDDDD
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It is actually a cay
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>>51900446
>omitting spanish
wew lad. I sure love platanos
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>>51900312
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>>51900531

portugal flag = portuguese
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>>51900531
10/10
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>>51900530
I thought u love cock :^)

>>51900511
checked
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>>51900531
It's bioscoop in Dutch, not kino
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>>51900641
t. Alberto Barbosa
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>>51900530
we also say bananas in spanish
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>>51900641
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>>51900705
only people from randstad call it bioscoop
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>>51900739
yeah and I say amigos in english hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa
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>>51900789
>portumoors

nice "latin" heritage you have there "friend"
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>>51900789
We don't say it full. We short it to: segunda, terça, quarta, quinta, sexta, sábado, domingo, e você é gay.
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>>51900906
absolute madman

can't believe it
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>>51900312
>9fag watermark

please kill yourself, OP.
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>>51900661
>kuulakärkikynä
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>>51900531
kek
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>>51901025
HAHAH WHOOPS!
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>>51900530

We call platanos for high quality from Canary islands and bananas for the low quality from central america.
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>>51901025
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>>51901126
alright, thanks senpai. i'm learning spanish at the moment and I appreciate little pieces of trivia like that.
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>>51900312
>American "English"
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>>51900881
Eat my ship while I'm pooping
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>>51900312
Ostrov, ostrovok.

>>51900531
Kino, fil'm, kintso, kinishko, filmets.

>>51900661
Roochka.

>>51900789
Ponedel'nik.

>>51901025
This vodka is too fancy for hooligans. The suit should be dark or colored.
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>>51900531
top meme, very accurate drawing of a finn too
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>>51900661
I call that a Lápiz.
(Some other places, a fuente or a bolígrafo (from ball pen).
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>>51901192
>postlord
kek, this name is badass.
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>>51900312

Jeg elsker dansk... but this made me laugh.
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>>51901126

plátano.... plata ano... Hmm.
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>>51901192
>battle of gridlington

nice
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>>51900925
> segunda-feira comes directly from the roman Feriae day system
> meanwhile "christian" countries use Roman pagan gods-based days
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>>51901336

You've been had. It's a postman.
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>>51901192
I prefer autumn desu
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>>51901644

Fall was the original English term and was brought to the Americas by emmigrants where it survived.

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=fall
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>>51901776
I would've thought it to be something like "harvest" in original, but maybe it is us who shifted away from the original meaning here
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>>51900925
>using pagan names for days of the week
Absolutely heretical
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>>51900925
we use the same sistem of the vatican. No roman paganism nonsense
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>>51900531
>cinema
Its called the movies, guise
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>>51901192
>The Battle of Gridlington
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>>51901192
>post code
>autumn

There, anything else is stupid
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>>51900446
Well, banana belongs to the Musaceae family and is the Musa genome so it isn't wrong
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>>51900881
Not this fuck again
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>>51901192
Anyone else love Postlord Pat as a kid?
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>>51900661
Technically it's a ball pen, not simply a pen. And Kugelschreiber means nothing other than ball writer, which makes the German name exactly as logical as the English one.
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>>51900661
>Stylo
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>>51901192
desu
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>>51900789
The Portuguese system would make sense if Sunday was Umda-feira. It starts with Monday being Segundo (Second) and goes to Sexta-feira (Sixth) for Friday.

Then you have Sabado and Domingo in the Weekends. Though I like the words for the weekend - Domingo from Domine/Day of our Lord.
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How do you say platypus in your country?

ornitorrinco
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>>51905228
Schnabeltier
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>>51900312
Ada

>>51900446
Banan

>>51900531
Sinema

>>51900661
Qələm

Shitty language...
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>>51901025

I thought that was endgame tier.
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>>51900387
Why not put Pakistan with the UK flag?
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>>51900387
But that's Italy
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>>51908341
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>>51901025
>no sunflower seeds
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>>51900531
what the fuck is a cinema
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>>51901192
>Restroom
It's the bathroom, at least meme right and make fun of us for calling toilets bathrooms regardless of the presence of a bath
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>>51900446
A good number of those languages are literally transliterating from English.
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>>51901192
>May I infer if sir is interested in partaking of a battle of griddlington
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>>51910906
To write "Qələm" you have to turn your paper upside down twice. Just for one fucking word
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>>51916522
I really want to know the thought process which went to making that reply...
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i vomit
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>>51900881
we called them bioskop too here
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>>51901192
that's literally postman pat
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>>51910800
Because it's Empire, therefore, Union Jack.
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>>51917918
PostLord Pat, you mean.
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>>51900312
Tapu

>>51900446
Kera

>>51900661
Kalam

>>51900789
Sombaar

>>51900531
No word desu
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>>51901192
鴨嘴 Kamonohashi
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I made a mistake.

>>51918416 is for >>51905228
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>>51900312
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>>51905033
top kek
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How has no one posted this one yet?
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>>51918501
SUOMI ON PARAS!!!
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>>51918113
rare
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>>51900312
Shima
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>>51918662
Painappuru
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>>51917598
Gosh, I'll have hella lot of times to recite your post. Gr8
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>>51918662
>ananas
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>>51918662
>spanish
>ananas
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>>51900531
elokuvateatteri=
elokuva=movie teatteri=theatre
Movie theatre lads.

Also
elokuva=

Elo= to be alive kuva= picture
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>>51918501
Damn that's interesting. I knew there were different styles for different cultures but to have so many analysed and put in plain english. Thanks for this man.
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>>51918662
Piña
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>>51918815
>>51918820
If you like ananas coladas
and getting caught in the rain
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>>51919108
ah, Pina Co Lada comes form that, huh?
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>>51919177
yes..."Piña" colada.
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I like this
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>>51901215
>Po neděli
Well played russia
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I want watch 2015 version of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xUIDRxdmc
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>>51919341
I want see more Japanese "translations" of English words that are just like Christmas = Kurisumasu
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>>51918662
>ananás
Why post the least relevant name?
This is called Abacaxi to vast majority of people that speak portuguese.
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SCHMETTERLING RAUCH RAUCH JAAAAAA

NEIN!!!!!!
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>>51919480
>I want see more Japanese "translations" of English words that are just like Christmas = Kurisumasu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gairaigo_and_wasei-eigo_terms

>kisumaaku in a rabuhoteru
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>>51919624
>furaidopoteto
Good old adorable Japan
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>>51918501
>Entrench
seems about right
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>>51919341
Im not even mad
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>>51919341
>Italian
>aero
Fucking wrong whole video discarded
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>>51900312
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>>51901192
Leg sleeves? Not trousers instead?
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>>51920128
Each pair of trousers has 2 leg sleeves, of course.
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>>51914846
>american linguistics education
boy oh boy
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>>51920128
one trouser = one leg sleeve
pair of trousers = a pair of leg sleeves
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>>51901192
Brits say I wanna go to the cottage when they wanna take a poo in the loo?
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>>51920264
We say we're "popping to the cottage", yeah
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>>51920264

Usually it's more like "I've got to head over to the cottage for a spell"
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>>51905228
Vesinokkaeläin

Waterbeakanimal
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>>51920409
sounds cool.
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>>51900312
in Hungarian is?
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>>51905068
>Umda-feira
Primeira-feira*
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>>51918416
>>51905275
>>51921340
>>51905228
Do these names have meanings to them like the Finnish one

Very weird that you all have very different names for an animal that only exists in Australia and was discovered, and therefore named by the English
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>>51918113
>No word desu
Dont you have cinemas?
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>>51905033
>rooty tooty point n' shooty
never gets old
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>>51922575
Spanish seems to be because of the Latin name
Ornithorhynchus anatinus
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>>51922575
I'm going out on a limb and say that the german word is just "billanimal" or something.

It's how they name most of their animals.
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>>51922928

German language is logical, new words made are just two old words put together to better describe the object
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>>51923643
What's the flag between Scotland and Cornwall?
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>>51923902
Brittany
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>>51900446
Plátano
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>>51900661
In spanish thats a bolígrafo. pluma is either feather or stylograph
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>>51900789
Monday. Moon
Lunes. Luna
illuminati confirmed
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>>51901451
silver anus. yeah.... pretty much
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>>51919177
piña being the fruit and colada being an adverb.an adjetive taken from a verb (colar). couldnt find a good translation to english but the closest one wouldbe to sieve i believe.

thats why the drink is called like that
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>>51919177
Thats the reason i laughed so much with GATE
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>>51901192
Wow, British English is such a magnificent language.
But I like "blow it outta your ass"-ican more.
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>>51901192
Here's an actual British translation of each term:

>Post code
>Autumn
>Doughnuts
>Postman
>Pretzel
>Toilet
>Trousers
>Hot dogs
>Pavement
>Noughts and crosses
>Aubergine
>Candy floss
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>>51900881

And people from Groningen. And Friesland. And non-Randstad Noord Holland. And non-Randstad Zuid Holland.. Literally who calls it kino, besides the Germans? Southerners or Tukkers or something?
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>>51901192
>restroom
>cootage

heh, i hope that's an intentional reference
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>>51926073
Wow, how bad of a tool would I sound like if I said
>oh look "lads" here comes the postlord
?
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>>51918662
भुइँ कटहर in Nepali. Literally means Earth Breadnut

>>51922651
We just call them film halls.
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>>51919341
>mexican as spanish
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>>51923100
:^)
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>>51928728
>with the one that he made practical too, I wonder?
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>>51900352
good lad
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>>51918662
I'm guessing its beause ananas sounds too close to bananas
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>>51930542
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>>51900387
We're that important m8.

I always kek when I see the graphic of an Aztec pyramid to learn spanish on Duolingo.

Spain BTFO
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>>51930832
This triggers both me and the portugese
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>>51914846
HAHAHAHAHA
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>>51905228
nokkloom

beakanimal
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>>51900312
etymomogy of island is ieg(Old English) + land(Proto Germanic).
then ieg comes from awjo(Proto Germanic).
awjo means "island"
therefore we can easily analogize that Danish O come from Proto-Germanic "awjo"(island) yeah.

chinamini, å means in Danish language "River"
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>>51901192
>Leg Sleeves
triggered
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>>51905068
>umda-feira
hahahha why the fuck was this so funny
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>>51905228
the same as you

>>51905275
beak animal
cool
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>>51919521
here we call abacaxi a smaller variant
and ananás is pretty big
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>>51932024
KEK
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>>51901192
>you will never be a postlord
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>>51931039
Their Portuguese is Brazilian-Portuguese and their Spanish is Mexishit dialect.
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