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I didn't get this one at first because I wasn't aware of the work Murder on the Orient Express.

[-] ea6927d8@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago
[-] oeil@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Thank you ! As a non-native English speaker, I absolutely did not get it. I thought it was linked somehow to "blackmailer" as in French, we also use the term "corbeau" (crow) to describe it. Instead of being a Crime on the Orient-Express, it would have been a "Blackmailer on the Orient-Express"...less gruesome.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It seems to be an Emglish linguistics in-joke or something, to come up with the most ridiculous words for groups of animals...

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