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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by xupybd on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:28PM (#23472136)
Isn't beaucoup French?
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:45PM (#23472663)
Oui, https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/beaucoup
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by britr on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @07:40PM (#23472221)
Yes it is - France has colonised part of vietnam
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by samatman on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @08:39PM (#23472637)
yes, and as Army slang, it made it into American English through Vietnamese
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by xupybd on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:01PM (#23472739)
Very cool. Did not know this. Will have to tell my Vietnamese wife. We were trying to figure out if English had any Vietnamese words. I think this counts.
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by selimthegrim on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @09:12PM (#23472803)
I'm pretty sure in Louisiana it was already in slang through French here
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Re:Ask HN: Which tools have made you a much better programmer? by wolco on Tuesday June 09, 2020 @10:25PM (#23473258)
Hundreds of years of French culture through Louisiana.

Other unique French US cultures:

Haitian Creole

New England French were are Canadian migrants.

Missouri French

Muskrat French from Michigan

North Dakoka Metis French

It could have come to some from 40 years old but it was already here for many.

Still it's a French word. It is like going to Germany and learning an English word but calling it German.

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