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Jul 6, 2021

What's wrong with it from a US perspective? It's pretty normal in colloquial Australian English at least – to me it frames it as a kind of a 'light prick', rather than being something painful, to be feared I guess? 😅

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Brendan Zabarauskas

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@jonmsterling

Ahh gotcha, yeah might be a bit more weird on US media. I still think folks in the US could stand to watch/read more media from overseas I guess… like, that's kind of par of the course for us, constantly translating from US English to British English, etc.

10:57 PM · Jul 6, 2021Twitter Web App

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I'll admit to viscerally recoiling when people use US terms here – like 'deplane', or 'detrain', or 'cell phone' come to mind immediately, haha. I'm less bothered if it's in US context though.