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Re:Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player s... by ramraj07 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @04:08AM (#24605050)
Gonna take a gander and guess the developer might have an Indian origin! Or at least studied for the GRE!
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Re:Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player s... by JdeBP on Sunday September 27, 2020 @05:06AM (#24605265)
"pulcher" is a fairly elementary piece of Latin vocab. It's in Book I of the Cambridge Latin Course, for example. This is much the same in other courses. So anyone, Indian or not, who has done basic Latin in school is likely to have encountered it and hence be aware of "pulchritude".

* https://www.dl.cambridgescp.com/dl_course/book-i

A random other example: https://www.ocr.org.uk/Images/221512-gcse-latin-j282-defined...

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Re:Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player s... by vatican_banker on Sunday September 27, 2020 @06:14AM (#24605572)
Or anyone fluent on a romance language [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

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