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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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