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aisofteng on May 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lake Michigan Is So Clear Its Shipwrecks Are Visib...

Tangential, but it's "per se"; the phrase comes from Latin.

akx on May 8, 2017 [–]

And extra tangential, but "perse" is pejorative Finnish for "ass".

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