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Phonetically, 'za should be short for lasagne, and 'sa for pizza... or people can just say the damn words.

Whatever, I guess. Peeps gon' slang slang, for real, for real. 🤦‍♂️

In the eyes of a member of the ruling class, she fades into the background of the faceless proletariat.

Correct. Like "plunge" without the "lu".

That reminds me of the court scene in Ghostbusters. "It's true, your Honor. This man has no dick."

There was also a kids' animated series and action figures based on Toxic Avenger, which is definitely not a kids' movie.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9a/Nl-Gouda.ogg

A bit like "khow-da". Also acceptable: gow-da. US: goo-da.

I listened to a Dutch person pronounce Gouda (cheese) and now pronounce it that way, much to the dismay of my fellow Americans.

Blue Man Group: The Complex Rock Tour (favorite track: Rods and Cones)

Kellyanne Conway, U.S. Counselor to the President, in 2017.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

Of course companies wanted people to share the free demo versions but some full games did have annoying protection schemes in the '80s. Obfuscated data and purposely "bad" sectors on floppy; cardboard decoder wheels; asking for word #x from line #y of page #z of the game's manual, or, similarly, a page of codes printed in black ink on dark maroon paper to prevent photocopying... leading to folks distributing cracked versions and the cracking tools themselves!

To be fair, it was a pretty ridiculous time. Computer club meetings just turned into floppy-copy-fests.