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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by bipson on Friday December 01, 2017 @12:25AM (#15822121)
My native language is a German dialect, I grew up talking Portuguese, learned French in school for 5 years, 3 years of Spanish and I strongly disagree.

The French language is full of irregularities and weird, complicated sentence constructions (try to negate something in a conditional past tense), and worst of all, so many flowers of speech, that francophones love to show off.

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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by jjgreen on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:06AM (#15822611)
"Flowers of speech" is not, as far as I know, idiomatic English, but it should be: fantastic!
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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by bshimmin on Friday December 01, 2017 @05:16AM (#15823018)
It's very close to the idiomatic "flowery speech"!
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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by singularity2001 on Friday December 01, 2017 @06:22AM (#15823211)
flowers related to flavors?
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Re:A Map Showing How Much Time It Takes English-Speakers to ... by apendleton on Friday December 01, 2017 @11:43AM (#15825005)
This list is a measure of difficulty for native English speakers, specifically, for whom some of the complexities in French you mention are offset by a comparatively larger shared vocabulary as compared to Spanish (thanks, William the Conqueror).
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