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Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6580 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 49 of 51 13 October 2014 at 8:50am | IP Logged |
outcast wrote:
how words between languages have drifted to different meanings (my
favorite is the "pregnant" / "embarrassed", which has drifted into multiple meanings in
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My favorite is English "black" and French "blanc" (meaning "white") sharing the same
etymology (from a word meaning "ash").
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 50 of 51 17 October 2014 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
A related thread
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| bellang Newbie United States Joined 3680 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Vietnamese
| Message 51 of 51 27 October 2014 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
My work and my study induces me to learn more languages. In my country, English is a
second language we had to study since we were at grade 6. But actually, my English is not
really good. Recently, I have learned Chinese a little bit.
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