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dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:
there is a sort of de facto "international english", that people speak when they have learned most of the language and feel confident to freestyle the rest but get it wrong.
the example that triggered this thought was a swede saying "-20 centigrades" (actual number may have been different), which isn't how we'd say it, but is perfectly understandable.
i wonder if that's just how language is going to go as we gradually simplify it