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Re:Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation by iratewizard on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:01AM (#30600605)
Bilingualism in countries that don't natively speak the international language of English.
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Re:Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation by vanderZwan on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:14AM (#30600761)
Also in plenty of countries that do. Ask anyone from any African nation with English as one of its official languages.
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Re:Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation by thaumasiotes on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:21AM (#30600827)
The norm is multilingualism across different languages that are all local to the area. French people studying English in school are not "bilingual" at all, in this sense.
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Re:Canada accidentally helped crack computer translation by ggrrhh_ta on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @10:45AM (#30601145)
I was not counting that as bilingualism.
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