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Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. Also, what they say is what I’ve heard anecdotally several times and it makes sense when

Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. Also, what they say is what I’ve heard anecdotally several times and it makes sense when comparing even retail prices vs per drink prices.

thaumasiotes 4y ago
One obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese. I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.
- seanmcdirmid 4y ago
  Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    > Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username Context is pretty much everything; the only Chinese username I can more or less reel off from memory is '基妮真特么老油条... sabibibi', and I may be forgetting parts of it, but certainly there's plenty of swearing.
  - School-Cotton 4y ago
    It is Chinese: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=ta+ma+de https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....
    - thaumasiotes 4y ago
      seanmcdirmid surely knows that; I assumed he was saying it was unlikely to be used as a username. But I don't know why that would be.
    - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
      Ah, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.
brigandish 4y ago
> Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. I suggest that in the highly unlikely event this is true that we (the rest of the properly educated British) hunt this person down and dispose of them. After imposing a number of spelling tests first, of course.
- RupertEisenhart 4y ago
  As an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality. Ain't been caught yet tho
  - brigandish 4y ago
    We are watching…

thaumasiotes 4y ago

One obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese. I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.

seanmcdirmid 4y ago
Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.
- thaumasiotes 4y ago
  > Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username Context is pretty much everything; the only Chinese username I can more or less reel off from memory is '基妮真特么老油条... sabibibi', and I may be forgetting parts of it, but certainly there's plenty of swearing.
- School-Cotton 4y ago
  It is Chinese: https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary.php?define=ta+ma+de https://chinese.yabla.com/chinese-english-pinyin-dictionary....
  - thaumasiotes 4y ago
    seanmcdirmid surely knows that; I assumed he was saying it was unlikely to be used as a username. But I don't know why that would be.
  - seanmcdirmid 4y ago
    Ah, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.

brigandish 4y ago

> Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English. I suggest that in the highly unlikely event this is true that we (the rest of the properly educated British) hunt this person down and dispose of them. After imposing a number of spelling tests first, of course.

RupertEisenhart 4y ago
As an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality. Ain't been caught yet tho
- brigandish 4y ago
  We are watching…