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Re:Tachiyomi – It's Joever by riffraff on Sunday January 14, 2024 @03:48AM (#38988644)
Slang and snowclones and memes often are detached from their originally meaning.

"So long, and thanks for all the X", "grok", "long time no see", "catch 22" etc are all expressions that are commonly used by people who may not be familiar with their origin.

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Re:Tachiyomi – It's Joever by 3836293648 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @06:28AM (#38989504)
Long time no see has a popculture origin!?
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Re:Tachiyomi – It's Joever by riffraff on Sunday January 14, 2024 @07:34AM (#38989881)
no, but it was (supposedly[0]) some native american english pidgin.

I only meant that most people don't think they're citing native americans speaking broken english when using it today.

[0] https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/104145/what-is-t... someone says it was popularized by detective stories in the '40s tho :)

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Re:Tachiyomi – It's Joever by paradox460 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:21PM (#38992887)
It's basically a perfect translation of Chinese 好久不见
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