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Re:Firefox is getting language translation by lucb1e on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @12:22PM (#21325494)
Another Luc here that lives in Germany since a bit (yes, I know you said "for a bit") and recommends Deepl to everyone over Google :D
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Re:Firefox is getting language translation by umanwizard on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @02:16PM (#21326921)
I’m not sure about European English, but at least in American, it’s not normal to say “I live in Germany since a bit”. If you don’t live there anymore, you could say “I lived in Germany for a bit”. If you still live there, you could say “I have lived in Germany for a bit”
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Re:Firefox is getting language translation by Furiosity on Thursday October 24, 2019 @06:11PM (#21349712)
Based on some (limited) experience with people for whom German is L1 who are speaking English I suspect (without knowing any German myself) that this is a typical formation that a native German speaker would use when intending to form a "for a bit" phrase in English. tl;dr, I think it was a joke.
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