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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by egman_ekki on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:14PM (#29986803)
Doesn't it literally mean "Until we see each other [again]", which is even closer to "See you"?
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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by smarx007 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:22PM (#29986905)
It does mean exactly that, though not literally (there are only two words in the phrase literally).
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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by AdrianB1 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @06:18PM (#29987549)
Close enough. There are very close matches in Italian ("arrivederci"), French ("au revoir"), Romanian ("la revedere"), but for English these are the closest.
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