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What's your favourite type of beer?

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(For some context, I live in Canada, beer labels are bilingually English & French here)

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Ah, finally, we can figure out what Cicero is talking about!

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Milky way is the Milky milk

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Drum and bass

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Homograph/homophone post

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Chickens

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Something-mology

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Welsh orthography

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Basically twins?

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26119689

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Evil Beekes be like:

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No Pre-Greek origin today >:)

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þeodisce spræc

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Fuck loanwords; All my brothers speak the clean theedish folk tung
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Though I was taught this through, or so I thought, it's still tough throughout.

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English is a strange language.

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I know no other languages, so i guess Im just gonna have to roll with it.

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Lorem ipsum

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Multi-lingual

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ghoti shall set us free

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The many forms of Pain (au Chocolat)

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Any Low German speakers here?

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Phase Change (xkcd)

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3025

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It's alright

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Medieval Twitter

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The wonders of English spelling

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Explain French

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Hard time to be non-binary Spanish person

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Google Translation of English "non-binary" into spanish: "No binaria" (feminine form) and "No binario" (masculine form)
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"It's so much trouble remembering modern pronou-"

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I thought it was an easy question ...

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Ask a linguist what a word is
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Bone cognates

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"Holy Shit, Bone Cognates", with examples of mamals similar bones structure
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