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    3 months ago

    I always come across these things that would make a time traveller pause. You would think everyone in an era is as basic as the others, but there’s always this one group who pushed the package in their time.

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      3 months ago

      pushed the package

      This sounds like a translation error. The common colloquialism is “pushed the envelope.”

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        3 months ago

        There’s this fun thing with colloquialisms where you can alter them with synonyms. Have a shot maybe!

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          3 months ago

          There’s this fun thing with multi-lingual environments where non-standard language may not be intentional, and some people will even go so far as to expand a complete stranger’s vocabulary in a different language. Now, if this was intentional, have at it.