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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by tricolon on Saturday November 28, 2015 @01:53PM (#10641950)
Obligatory link to Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos": http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by stevekemp on Saturday November 28, 2015 @02:57PM (#10642165)
New to me, thanks for sharing.

Some great examples there, such as "minute" and "minute". heh.

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Re:English has been my pain for 15 years (2013) by leoc on Saturday November 28, 2015 @09:48PM (#10643520)
'Feoffer' is probably the worst word there. But just maybe the worst snare in English is 'positive' — the other 'positive' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_organ . Yes it's obviously some kind of loan-word, but then so are most English words...
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