Wikipedia gives examples of "curriculum vitæ" and "et cætera." We use those both as loanwords in English, but I've only seen it as the separate letters "ae," not the ligature æ.
CuriousRefugee
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True story: I traveled to Germany, Austria, and The Netherlands about 10 years ago with a friend on vacation. Before we arrived in Amsterdam, I warned him that some people thought that Dutch sounded silly, and he shouldn't laugh if it sounded like gibberish. I believe I used the phrase "like the Swedish chef from the Muppets."
We got on a bus from the train station. He heard the locals talking on the bus, and immediately burst out laughing, eliciting irritated looks from the other passengers. He continued giggling whenever anybody talked for the next 20 minutes until our stop, while I stood there embarrassed. On the walk to our Airbnb, we mercilessly mocked the Dutch language, as it is basically German with more vowels and a bunch of Vs and Js thrown in for no reason.
Get cast in a cop/spy/sci-fi drama on TV, have an assistant pull up the image on a screen, then simply say "Enhance" out loud.
Yeah, I'd rather have a thousand news stories of near-misses than one about a crash with casualties
Nah, it can't be a gorilla. Reliable sources told me the sun is a deadly lazer
Algebraic!
What does TLA stand for in this context?
Damn inflation! Back in my day, a nickel could buy a hamburger, two cents would get you a pack of gum, and a penny would get you a great boner! Hell, you could buy a whole book of boners for thirty-five cents!
"There are six ducks outside, and they all want Sunchips!"
Maybe not the first book to read, but one of the ones that made me think the most was The Dispossessed
Le Guin is one of my favorite authors, so I'm excited to see other people reading her for the first time!
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