How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time

Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by hnbad on Monday December 18, 2023 @03:19AM (#38680255)

The fun thing about those experiences in professional settings is that the non-native speakers struggling with $5 words will liberally use $10 words ($50 words? I don't know how this is deals with inflation) that are part of the specific domain.

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Re:How Africans Are Changing French – One Joke, Rap and Book... by notahacker on Monday December 18, 2023 @06:33AM (#38681276)

And trying to communicate clearly English to someone considerably more fluent in a Latin-derived language can even be an exercise in picking $10 and $50 words over the standard $5 ones because so much of our fancy vocabulary has common Latin roots

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