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[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Oh man I remember this in college. I was grabbing some stuff at a Walgreens and this Korean lady was on the phone saying that. When I got home I told one of my roommates and he was "No, no, they weren't being really racist, that's a common phrase in Korean!"

Incredibly unfortunate false cognate.