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11 months agoAh I see, thanks for the correction! (It also kind of demonstrates the problems I have with my own language :P)
Ah I see, thanks for the correction! (It also kind of demonstrates the problems I have with my own language :P)
My language is diglossic - it has a written form and a spoken form that are very different to each other. It’s quite difficult to understand the written form if you’ve only grown up speaking and listening to the language, as the written form is essentially the language as spoken in the 1600s.
To compare it to English, it would be like saying “Where are you?” to someone over the phone, but then having to send them “Wherefore art thou?” as a text.
I’m sure you don’t mean to offend, but the phrase “whole civilized world” being used to describe just the US + parts of western Europe is questionable at the very best.