• tetris11
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      That three finger thing is bullshit. In UK/Germany, people do whatever not some rote thing

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        In 1942? Not fair to compare modern habits with an isolated per-internet world.

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          perhaps even moreso. the variations in dialects when going from village to another can be huge. I would guess that countries homogenized later than WW2