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Re:Character Amnesia in China by djtango on Monday October 28, 2024 @01:09AM (#41968019)
A better example than sneeze might be diarrhoea. In Chinese this is very easy - 拉肚子 - but I'm sure there are English speakers who might forget the spelling for diarrhoea if they're having a bad day.
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Re:Character Amnesia in China by ralfd on Monday October 28, 2024 @06:34AM (#41969649)
Does English not have a native word? It would be „Durchfall“ in German, and the Greek word only be used if one wanted to be fancy.
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Re:Character Amnesia in China by umanwizard on Monday October 28, 2024 @08:15AM (#41970314)
English speakers perceive it as a native word, not a Greek one.

There are lots of examples of this, where English has a foreign-sounding word for something whereas German has a Germanic one. For example oxygen vs. Sauerstoff.

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Re:Character Amnesia in China by jan_Inkepa on Monday October 28, 2024 @07:01AM (#41969805)
It just has, uh, diarroeha...yeah I can't spell it either
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