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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by hob_code on Thursday May 20, 2021 @10:35AM (#27221623)
Richard Feynman noted something similar in his story about traveling to Brazil and learning Portuguese[1]. People would compliment him for using larger elegant sounding words, when really he just couldn't remember simpler words.

1. https://southerncrossreview.org/81/feynman-brazil.html

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by teddyh on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:21PM (#27225028)
At one standards meeting, Pete went out to dinner with the Italians, to discover that only one of them spoke a little English. In an attempt to be polite, he told them, “Machina ipsam culturam non habet” (Latin for “the computer has no culture of its own”). The English-speaker replied, “Pete, there’s nothing wrong with your Italian, except that you use all those archaic words.”

— Jacques Vallee, The Network Revolution: Confessions of a Computer Scientist (1982) https://books.google.com/books?id=6f8VqnZaPQwC

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by BrandoElFollito on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:11PM (#27226533)
Oh thank you, I just commented about that elsewhere and you provided the link :)
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