• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    23 hours ago

    It’s doing better but not by much, though. It shouldn’t be speculating as much, given the lack of info on the potential saying.

    A family saying or regional expression

    Speaking on that I tried a few sayings from other languages. It seems to be hit-and-miss:

    • “Bread is bread, wine is wine” (Italian) - recognised properly as similar to “call a spade a spade”
    • “A good fish swims thrice” (Polish) - recognised properly as a recipe-like saying (the fish swims in water, then butter, then wine)
    • “Do you think mango core is soap?”, “Mango core is not soap” (Portuguese; specially common in Brazil) - it failed really hard. The rhetorical question / saying roughly means “this is blatantly absurd, why are you denying the obvious?”, or perhaps “cut off the crap”. But here’s the output: