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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by xwolfi on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:25AM (#27222370)
It's very obvious, you're right. I'm French and I sometimes I have to prove people the words are in an English dictionary while they're absolute basic 6-yo level in French.

I remember "ameliorate" that an american friend (an adult) didn't even know (but again this guy mixed Portugal and Porto Rico so maybe not the best sample lol), while for me it was clearly an easy cheat because I had more trouble reaching for "enhance".

Ofc since I'm also an ass, I like to claim English "stole" all those French word then proceeded to misspell and massacre them.

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by Oreb on Thursday May 20, 2021 @01:49PM (#27224516)
> I like to claim English "stole" all those French word then proceeded to misspell and massacre them.

Fair enough, but then French is nothing more than horribly misspelled, massacred and ungrammatical Latin.

Of course the same could be said about any other current language, after replacing Latin with whatever our ancestors spoke a couple of thousand years ago.

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