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Old 06-10-2004, 07:48 AM
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[color=#000000ost_uid0]Malicious pleasure would be pretty close word-wise, but I'm not sure if it conveys the right concept. This is a fusion of language and culture and can not be plucked apart like that.

Everybody loves the word "panzer". Which is all the more perplexing when you consider that we first used the English word for them. (Which lead to names like the Tankgewehr 1918, perhaps the world's first serious anti-material rifle.) But I disgress...

What [bost_uid0]are[/bost_uid0] chitlins?

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