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Where I live, I have to have this conversation way too often with people. (thelemmy.club)
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[-] Klear@quokk.au 2 points 3 days ago

This reminds me how setting prints letter-by-letter was time consuming, so the printers had common words or even whole phrases ready too. It was called stereotype.

In France they called it cliché...

this post was submitted on 09 May 2026
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