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    13 hours ago

    Wow you figured out how to break JPG encryption? Someone call Alan Turing, we got a prodigy over here

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      I’m French, we often use comparable actions verbs even if it’s not their real context. More commonly known as the metaphore stylistic device.

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        Is it common for the French to put together random semi-related, mostly nonsense words to try and sound like you know what you’re talking about?

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          Sounds like you need to open a dictionary ! It’s one of those big, stern books. Books are those stacks of paper bound together on one side.

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              I was gonna let you be stupid without saying anything, but you doubled down twice so now I will prove that you are wrong.

              The first definition of decrypt in the American Heritage Dictionary is “To Decipher” I’ll admit, not super helpful, so let’s look at the definition of decipher. “To read or interpret (ambiguous, obscure, or illegible matter)”

              So for someone to “decrypt” an overexposed picture, they would be, by dictionary definition, trying to interpret what the ambiguous picture was actually showing, since the lighting was making it unclear.

              You are in the wrong when saying they used the wrong word, you just don’t have as good a command over the English language as you thought

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      Decrypt is closely related to the word “interpret”, which is something I personally interpreted from a history of decrypting English text written by nonnative speakers on the internet. 👍

      The same words often have different meanings in different countries; something you should take into account in case you ever decide to take a German gift from a slim Dutchman.