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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by huachimingo on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:28PM (#30939173)
If I had a penny for every esperanto speaker who also does software....
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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by overkalix on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @08:40PM (#30939272)
... you'd have at most 2000 dollars?
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Re:The remarkable brain of a carpet cleaner who speaks 24 la... by thaumasiotes on Thursday April 07, 2022 @02:54AM (#30941441)
The "if I had a penny" family of expressions dates back to a time when the monetary value of pennies was greater than the burden of carrying them around.
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