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Re:Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project by sigi45 on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:31AM (#15355111)
In germany it sounds like 'einen abseilen' aka 'to go to the toilet and dump one'
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Re:Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project by majewsky on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:43AM (#15356114)
Technically, the verb "abseilen" just means "to rope down", but the collision with this idiom is rather unfortunate.
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Re:Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project by Geeflow on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:24AM (#15363180)
I am not sure how common that is, though. I am a native speaker and have not heard that expression before.
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Re:Introducing Abseil, a new common libraries project by sigi45 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:04AM (#15428236)
I don't think it is common to say it often but at least in Bavaria, people know this.
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