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Marketing bollocks, buzzword bingo, or your mum saying "fudge" when she really wants to swear like a trooper. Let's ride the hockey stick curve of this top hat product, solutioneers.

Thanks to simbosan for the idea

(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 13:13)
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But azure is a specific shade of blue, and therefore a useful word.
What about cerise? Am I allowed to say cerise?

I don't really understand why we (or any other language/nation) has their own words for foreign places. Why don't we call every place by whatever its inhabitants call it?
(, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 17:31, 1 reply)
people aren't that clever
They will inevitably fuck up the pronunciation. Even something as seemingly piss easy as Roma is hard for your average native English speaker to pronounce.
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