• jerkface@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      It’s like a child confidently telling his parents he can say “ass” and “damn” because those are the names of playing cards in French.

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        2 months ago

        Man I must have missed the news that Australian English has diverged enough to be reclassified as a mutually unintelligible language with english as spoken by everyone else.

        That or your comparison to French is complete manure cheval.