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1. Tycho ◴[] No.35414656[source]
I stood behind some German-speaking people at the hotel check-in recently (I think they were Swiss), and I noticed they would sprinkle English phases into their conversation in a sort of jovial way. “Up in the room.” At breakfast I saw the same group, probably recovering from a night of partying, one said to the other on sight, “under the weather?”