Finland will seek NATO membership immediately

Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by shreyshnaccount on Thursday May 12, 2022 @12:28PM (#31356392)

To stray from the topic, the double game phrase does make sense to me, possibly because it's also a Hindi phrase

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by kn0where on Thursday May 12, 2022 @03:42PM (#31359289)

I think the English equivalent is "playing both sides of the fence." Double game makes intuitive sense too though.

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by shreyshnaccount on Thursday May 12, 2022 @05:49PM (#31360555)

And one of the Hindi phrases my mom uses "thali ka baingan" literally translates to "eggplant of the plate" doesn't make any sense in English but I love it xD. Hindi is a pretty beautiful language and people use so many colourful metaphors it's incredible!

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by piva00 on Friday May 13, 2022 @05:41AM (#31365210)

Same for me as a Brazilian, jogo duplo means literally double-game and it's a pretty popular expression. Probably in Portugal and other Portuguese-speaking countries as well.

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Re:Finland will seek NATO membership immediately by oblivion on Sunday May 15, 2022 @11:03AM (#31387969)

Same in Romanian, "joc dublu". I suspect it's common in latin based languages or maybe all indoeuropean languages, seeing how it's the same in Hindi.

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