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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by gruez on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @08:59AM (#21824835)
Good luck getting the Americans, Canadians, British, Indians, and Australians to all agree on something.
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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by jsolson on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @09:10AM (#21824955)
I mean, we already disagree on spelling for some words, the name for the letter 'Z', and what to call dwellings in multi-family properties, so we're not off to a great start...
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Re:The hardest aspect of learning English as a second language by bjourne on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:58AM (#21826138)
When the German spelling reform was enacted in the German Empire in 1902, German was spoken in many countries outside of it. In fact, it rivaled English as the Lingua franca for the scientific world.
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