• @PrometheusG
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    141 year ago

    I believe it means minstrels who became clowns.

    • @ilexOP
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      11 year ago

      I’ve heard this before from a Russian speaker. I don’t understand how it got written this way. It drives me a little nuts trying to imagine how it became written as such. A translation that got fucked repeatedly until finally it was only bots reprinting it?

    • animist
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      221 year ago

      “cum” is Latin for “with” and is sometimes used in English to show that something is two things at once, so “minstrel-cum-clown” would be someone who is both a minstrel and a clown

        • clompy
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          71 year ago

          I wouldn’t consider it odd to see it between two English words. ‘Seminar-cum-workshop’ is one example I found with plenty of search results.
          It’s also used (with the same meaning) in English place names e.g. the Beegees are from Chorlton-cum-Hardy.

  • @j4k3
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    31 year ago

    Prominent historical title for Putin.

    • @ilexOP
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      11 year ago

      Dude. Just look at the referenced image. It is an image of text.