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I figured since there was no wtf yesterday, I would provide one.
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Is your body glowing bright?
You gotta log in to log out...
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As a fellow Brisbanite, I tried the phone number for the Bavarian restaurant. The problem is 000 is the Australian equivalent of 911.
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Yo Dawg, we heard you like to log out. So we put a log in into your log out so you can log in to log out to log into the log out...uuhmm...to log out. Uh crap.
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Now this was an excellent first comment, well done sir!
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Get a life loser
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We just have to go deeper, Inception style, to fully understand this "Log in to Log Out" ordeal.
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The error message from Medal of Honor was intentional. A bit of dry engineering humor, manually translated into 10-or-so languages.
I worked with that team. Initially the message seemed a bit silly - but now that it has brought the game onto TheDailyWTF and worldwide glory, it was clearly worth it!
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We'll let you do the translations for Japanese, Russian, and some other Slavic languages, then.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Grammatical_number
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dual_%28grammatical_number%29#The_dual_in_the_Slavic_languages
It's a little more complex than adding something to the end of a string whenever you're dealing with more than one object.
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