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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by jgwil2 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @11:44PM (#27230259)
French and German, at least, have handy words (si and doch respectively) that just serve to contradict a negative question.
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Re:Native speakers are hard to understand in a lingua franca... by developer93 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:58AM (#27243934)
I think doch and ihr (plural you) really need to be in English. I sometimes use yous for ihr, but unfortunately no equivalent for doch yet.
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