@stavvers Ooh, now I'm actually wondering about other kanji-like characters used in English! Off the top there's @ (at) and & (and) which are relatively commonly used in sentences as if they were the words they represent. Especially &.
@stavvers I swear Fred’s half crossing guard, half Labrador puppy in a giant cat suit. He literally does none of the “bad cat” behavior I read about. #FredTheWonderCat#Caturday
@stavvers I remember this with my mom's Wii. We'd receive a disc for the Wii with a bunch of stuff from Netflix and then the Netflix app appeared on the Wii one day and we didn't know what to do with the disc. I probably still have it somewhere
@stavvers Very funny now I just have to inform you I opened this thread in need for context after reading your message and tried getting back to the first post, I was 16 then and am now retired, I never got to the first post
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@stavvers reminds me of a joke: The six-year-old sits at dinner, grumpily speaking their first words ever: "Soup's cold." The family is thrilled: "OMG so you *can* talk? Why didn't you all the time??" - "Nothing to talk about."
@stavvers someone from Lower Bavaria once told this story to illustrate a certain tight-lipped grumpyness in their folk, so of course everybody actually speaks Bavarian. I guess if you can imagine that it will certainly add some flavour!