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Sander Rossel wrote: And I could care less is very common as well, come on people, how hard is it!?
I recall having a "robust discussion" with someone on here about that one some years ago. They couldn't quite grasp the idea that could care less implies a non-zero amount of caring at the moment. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had french customers who always wrote porpoise instead of purpose.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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That peaked piqued my interest.
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Fairy interesting 
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I take that for grunted. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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the discussion is eating up …
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Emperor leaves behind rotten pelt found by Spanish river dog (9)
HINT: Not every culture would consider this food.
SOLUTION
PEKINGESE = Dog*
KING = Emperor
ahead of = leaves behind
PE = Pelt - lt (rotten = deletion indicator)
ES = Spanish (i.e. language)
E = River E (in Scotland)
* Dog meat is considered a food[^] in some countries, thus still follows the theme of food named after a location. The Pekingese dog breed[^] is named after Peking(Beijing) which is the capital of China (which also happens to consume the most dog meat of all the countries).
modified 18-Jul-19 8:02am.
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Are we on the same theme or going on a fresh tangent from yesterday?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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hmmm... how to respond without giving away a clue... I believe the theme remains the same
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...probably worth thinking "outside the box" a bit though (that's not a clue about boxes by the way)
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McDonald's? It doesn't entirely fit the clue but it has 9 letters and certainly fits the hint, added to which it's pretty rotten, it may well contain leaves, it's just about good enough for a dog and the bread has probably been soaked in a Spanish river and you could probably pelt someone with it ... Emperor sounds more like Burger King, though, and that hasn't got 9 letters, so I'm stuck!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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A part of me wishes that was correct. Although I do like Mcds so... it's a no from me.
Did my hint not help?
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In as much as I realised that it was definitely going to be a dog ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I thought it was Pekinese 😧
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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To be fair, I probably would have thought the same based on how it is pronounced... in fact, a google says it sometimes is also spelt like that[^]... hmmm 
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A cross process many postulate (5)
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AXIOM leapt out at me, right after "cross => X"
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Nice 
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dialog, circa 1776
English: Colour.
American: Color!
English: favour.
American: favor!
English: what are you doing?
American: getting rid of "u".
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: English: what are you doing?
American: getting rid of "u".
English: programme
American: program
got rid of "me" too? So who is left over there in the good old US of A?
(and is that why it's so good)
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It all the fault of the French - of course.
The USA was first infested with Brits from a time when the English language used "ize" and "or" endings to many words.
Then came the pernicious french influence on the English language causing "ize" endings to become the more french-like "ise" and the extra "u" to appear to make "or" into "our" endings.
The USians were not affected by this foul corruption and so maintained the original English spellings.
In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
It's still wrong though. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Forogar wrote: In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
It's still wrong though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Forogar wrote: It all the fault of the French
The Germans, actually.
It took the US about fifty years to decide whether their national language should be English or German.
IMO, they made the wrong decision. Pissing about with the spelling of Germam words seems to be a fair-to-middling passtime; their pissing about with English spelling has proven to be a PITA.
Forogar wrote: In some ways, American English is more Old English than the modern British English.
Here's the thing: Back when the Americas were discovered, there was no such thing as a dictionary of English, so it would hardly have been surprising had there been some branching at that point, but the spelling debacle came much, much later.
After the Pro-German contingent lost the national-language battle, they insisted that English spelling be simplified.
The result was not as bad as it could have been -- If they had had their way, written US English would have been phonetic (well German phonetic, anyways) -- which would (contrary to their desires, obviously) have made it impossible for grammar Nazis to later get all snidey about, for example, the spelling of "their", "there", and "they're", because they would all have had the same spelling.
So the English-spelling "simplification" was the result of a bunch of the latter-day "social media" bitching by petty little political pr1cks.
But it's established, and it's a dialect, so what the Hell. There are worse dialects, even within the British Isles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hmmm... I still blame the French, anyway. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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