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11 months ago bilby said:

Gun. Supposedly a backtranslation from a term coined by an Aboriginal tribe for the loud and devastating weapons of European colonisers. Spears and linguistic dexterity, unfortunately, were no match for thundersticks in the settlement of the Australian continent.

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