• ulterno@programming.dev
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    10 hours ago

    I don’t get either of those contexts.

    When I read “Quakers”, I just recalled Quake III Arena and thought, “that doesn’t fit”.

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      9 hours ago

      Quakers were some anti authority religious minority (Christian) in Scotland/England. They were notorious for their lack of respect. E.g. used “thy” instead of the formal you. (English changed since then and the informal thy fell out of use)

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        9 hours ago

        Quakers were

        Are. They’re still around. Still a relatively big minority Christian group in the UK.

        Still everyone’s favourite Christian denomination. Cool bunch.