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		lenerdenator on Oct 9, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Germans decry influence of English as 'idiot's apo... If it's English because the King speaks it, how come the most famous document written in (modern) English tells the King to take a hike?

int_19h on Oct 9, 2024 | [–]

But the King is basically German. ~

kps on Oct 9, 2024 | [–]

Exeunt, bearing off the dead bodies; after which a peal of ordnance is shot off.

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