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submitted 5 months ago by Deebster@programming.dev to c/xkcd@lemmy.world

xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech

https://xkcd.com/2942

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Thank you to linguist Gretchen McCulloch for teaching me about phonetic assimilation, and for teaching me that if you stand around in public reading texts from a linguist and murmuring example phrases to yourself, people will eventually ask if you're okay.

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[-] stormdelay@sh.itjust.works 31 points 5 months ago

Speaking English using French vocabulary is a real cheat code

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

English speakers can really enhance their vocabulary when they know French. English does have a lot of French words that most people don't use anymore but if you use them, your vocabulary becomes off-the-charts intellectual.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

I was thinking more of Spanish, but yup. Same thing.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Yeah, coming from Portuguese, I know by hearth all of the refined vocabulary to be found in English.

But the mundane is a whole other world.

[-] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Like "bamboozled"!

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 months ago

Anglo-language conversations plus Franco-vocabulary utilization, remains a veritable trick code

De rien

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