oh, I see. I remember how my colleague would always bid farewell by saying âCiao, bambini!â to our office, where every single worker was female (a clerkâs fate). I am not a native Italian speaker, but it always bothered me. Like, shouldnât it be âbambineâ?
Mamma Mia
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Iâm Scottish.
I will be moving to Norway 
in a few years time.
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I live on the North Sea coast and far away from the dreadful Belgian border,
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Iâve used English for over a decade as my operating system language because most tech support forums are in English and itâs much easier to find solutions from errors messages in English than any other language.
That and, as you mentioned, technical translations from English can be awful and at times outright incorrect.
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In English, âPizzeriasâ is actually grammatically viable.
Just like how you say âbonusesâ and not âboniâ 
Guys, weâre halfway into november. Weâre nearing on the jolly holly season. Itâs officially time for GLĂGG!
Oi maamme 
Itâs that time of year where Iâm faced with the thought " 
why did man ever choose to settle here."
Gotta wait for next summer to remember the answer.
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Iâm gonna fix myself some right now
p.s. itâs spelled glögi
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GlĂžggers! GlĂžggchamp!
Had my first mug of the season whilst visiting my South-Savonian grandfather and coming out of his sauna.
Bliss.
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You mean glögg
Even here I see it spelt glögg/glög despite danes and our love of Ă
Honestly, if the danes spell it glögg, thatâs just a really strong argument for spelling it glĂžgg.
The few instances where even we Finns are okay with using g instead of kâŠ
Maybe Iâll start spelling it klöki anyway.
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Klöki sounds like an icelandic spirit.
Of the drinkable kind.
Haha I sometimes wonder too why ancestors move to a desert with 50+ Celsius summers. I suppose life was harder whatever it was they moved from.
Anyway everywhere has bad weather but we learn to survive and adapt whether itâs -50 or +50 
Humans are a bit like cockroaches, in that sense. They move wherever itâs feasible to eke out a living, and are afterwards impossible to remove.
Boerenkool met worst.