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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tja in a world where every OS has its own stupid little UI system, language and IDE..

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no idea if this is right or not, but lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh of COURSE, how could I be so stupid

That is hilarious though, I got some German friends I need to ask about this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is also widely used to express something like "I told you so" or "I already warned you that this will happen. You did this to yourself." in a single word.

E.g. "Did you hear about my anti-vaxx aunt Hildegard? She died of Covid last month."

"Tja."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Dutch people use it (although I doubt it's an official word), meaning something like "that's what you get" or "oh well".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also used in German

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

OK that makes sense, though I wonder why they mixed Danish and English; maybe that's common and I've just never seen it before