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[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pickles come with alcohol if intended to be eaten in significant amounts. So yeah.

[–] badcommandorfilename@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Define "significant". I, for one, have never had an insignificant number of pickles.

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

1-liter jar is significant enough to demand a mandatory bottle of vodka to be consumed with.

[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

After consuming all the salt from a 1L jar of pickles and a quart of vodka:

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In my culture we have a proverb: "Vodka without a beer is just a waste of money".

[–] addie@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am intrigued. Most of the cultures I'd expect to have that proverb have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.

[–] Lembot_0004@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Most of the cultures ... have neither definite nor indefinite articles in their language.

Not sure what you're talking about. I'm Ukrainian. Was born in the Soviet Union.

[–] addie@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Was expecting it to be "vodka without beer is just waste of money", in that case.

Looking it up, most sources seem to have it the other way around - "beer without vodka", as in there's no point wasting money on drinking unless you're going to do some hard drinking?

[–] MBM 2 points 1 week ago

Unless I'm misunderstanding, you add those when translating so you don't get broken English?