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by epicureanideal 1438 days ago
Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English.

Also, what they say is what I’ve heard anecdotally several times and it makes sense when comparing even retail prices vs per drink prices.

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> Maybe adapting to internationalized (American at this point) English.

I suggest that in the highly unlikely event this is true that we (the rest of the properly educated British) hunt this person down and dispose of them. After imposing a number of spelling tests first, of course.

As an expat Brit who has been living with ESL speakers for over a decade and gotten sloppy on many of these things, some part of me lives in constant fear of exactly this eventuality.

Ain't been caught yet tho

We are watching…
One obvious theory is that 'tamade' never learned British English; the username appears to be Chinese.

I doubt you're required to be a British national in order to invest in British pubs.

Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username (maybe Japanese phonetically, but that could easily be a coincidence), but I would let them speak for themselves.
Ah, ok then. To me it looks like “your mom’s” and then cutoff.
seanmcdirmid surely knows that; I assumed he was saying it was unlikely to be used as a username. But I don't know why that would be.
> Tamade doesn’t sound in anyway like a Chinese username

Context is pretty much everything; the only Chinese username I can more or less reel off from memory is '基妮真特么老油条... sabibibi', and I may be forgetting parts of it, but certainly there's plenty of swearing.