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TIL ska originated in the 1950s and is the precursor to reggae (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

When I was a teen, I thought that ska was short for “skatepunk”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ah, I get you. I myself thought the HXC logo with the X in a circle (which stands for hardcore) was Cyrillic for "sound", or someone simply told me and I believed them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Cyrillic isn't even a language