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Paper is the new privacy measure. (discuss.online)
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[-] TRock@feddit.dk 3 points 3 months ago

English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago

English doesn't even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

I mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.

[-] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Not German. But it's usually differentiated by the use of possessive or no possessive.

Mein Freundin = Partner

Eine Freundin = Friend

English is usually the same though.

My girlfriend = Partner

One of my girlfriends / a girlfriend = Friend

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