Linguistic body has relaxed rules on use of apostrophe to show possession, not traditionally correct in German
  • DempstersBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Well for starters, kids aren’t going to whinge about it- they’re just going to use it, generally correctly for their setting.

    Headlines when a royal family kid is bilingual, every day regular-ass survival when a poor border town kid does it, unprompted.

    I mean, the royal kids totally would of got it on their own, right?

      • DempstersBox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        There was one royal kid-a girl- who learned spanish.

        It made headlines.

        I assume her accent is so bad as to be largely unintelligible to most spanish speaking folks.

        They have translators.

        Border kids learn both on their own or they starve