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Anon was bullied (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 8 hours ago

Cover all your bases

From left field

Thow you a curveball

Roll with the punches

Throw in the towell

Move the goalposts

Par for the course

There are plenty more but its basically so ubiquitous no one even notices all their cringy sports terms in every day life.

(/s on the cringy, just a play on op)

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Those are idioms. The anime kids were weirdly incorporating Japanese words into their communication with English speakers and doing kamehamehas in the hallway.

Here's something more analogous: A friend spent the summer before senior year in France and when she came back, you could not get through a conversation without her dropping a French word or relating something to "how they do things in France". And yes, we made fun of her until she stopped.

[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Thats kind of how language works though. Words get borrowed and absorbed from other languages all the time.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Yes but that's done naturally, not shoehorning it into conversation with people who have no idea what you're talking about

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