• NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    As an Arabic speaker I have never heard of number 3, though Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat so that’s not saying much.

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      28 minutes ago

      Even the English one is from the 1950s, there’s so many more phrases used these days that are highly regionally dependent, not even just an American English vs British English but different cities will sometimes have their own preferences.

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      23 hours ago

      I was surprised “Arabic” was this loosely defined when “Chilean Spanish” was very specifically defined immediately following

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      Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat

      It has so much in common with English