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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by BrandoElFollito on Thursday May 20, 2021 @04:06PM (#27226459)
No worries, Feynman used such a word in Portuguese when he did not know the short, common one and it was a great success.

I do not remember the word anymore, it was in You Must Be Jocking, Mr Feynman. - in the party where he was teaching in Brazil

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Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak... by insipid on Saturday May 22, 2021 @02:39PM (#27249144)
I read that book when I was an English-monolingual kid, living in Portugal, and /consequentemente/ that story really stuck in my head when I was struggling for Portuguese words: https://southerncrossreview.org/81/feynman-brazil.html
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