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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?

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Why is there a lukewarm but no lukecool?

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So lukewarm means “warm warm”, except the repetition is basically the opposite of palilogia 🤣
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  It’s basically just East Timor/Timor-Leste, both meaning “east east”.
  
  This time, instead of “east”, it’s “warm”.

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