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English is an inefficient language: it needs 4 letters for “fuck” and “shit”, when you only need 3 in some Eastern-European languages: “fak”, “šit”.
Jun 03 · 5 months ago · 👍 drh3xx, PikaSonic · 😄 1
BTW, the next patch will fix your user feed:
@skyjake šit happens. Don’t worry too much, my feed is šit anyways.
In Slavic languages sometimes you need only two letters: for example, Russian "ёб" is a very expressive and short word that will be understood by everyone