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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by IshKebab on Friday May 05, 2017 @06:08PM (#14277164)
That sounds really clumsy. Like how the French still say "four score and ten" (in French).
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Re:Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds by Broken_Hippo on Saturday May 06, 2017 @08:15AM (#14279905)
It seems really clumsy until you get used to it. My spouse - a Norwegian - thinks the opposite about English time phrases. Clumsy and inaccurate.
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