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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by physicsguy on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:33AM (#21396951)
No, that's a US English meaning that isn't widely used in other English speaking countries.
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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by consp on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @08:49AM (#21397095)
Or other non-English speaking parliamentary democracies for that matter.
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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by kragen on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @09:10AM (#21397278)
I don't think the meaning currently given to cognates in other languages is relevant to the question of what a word means in modern English. In Spanish, bizarro means "brave", and recordar means "to recall from memory"; this does not provide any evidence that "bizarre" means "brave" in English, or that "recording" means "recalling from memory" in English. (Although, as it turns out, it once did.)
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