• 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Suffrage is one of those English language-internal false friends - you could easily confuse it with a personalised state of suffering, especially if English isn’t your first language (my bigger anxieties around this is finding out a word I used extensively has a different meaning than I thought)…

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      3 months ago

      I’m always reminded of the classic The Man Show bit where Jimmy and Adam go out to Venice Beach and ask people to support the cause of Ending Women’s Suffrage.