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		jogjayr on April 9, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How did you become fluent in English? > "seeing the handwriting on the wall." I've known that phrase for...I don't even know how long. But I only learned yesterday that its origin was Biblical. I love how Dan Carlin says "mene mene tekel upharsin" and wanted to read more about it, and made that happy discovery.

Natsu on April 9, 2018 [–]

Ahh, but actually the 'u' at the start of the 4th word is how they wrote 'and' so it's not clear it would've been written on the wall :)

Yeah, there are a lot of things like that which people have forgotten the origins of...

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