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Multiple languages quandaries

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Dimandja

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Apr 29, 2002
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It has been mentioned that knowing to use more than one language is great. But grammatically, multiple language users run into interesting headache inducing disorientations.

For instance, here are some words whose spelling would create a small crisis in someone who uses both English and French:

Code:
English         French
=======         ======
a[b]dd[/b]ress         a[b]d[/b]resse
a[b]p[/b]artment       a[b]pp[/b]artement
gover[b]nm[/b]ent      gouver[b]nem[/b]ent
So close, but yet so far apart... To this day, I pause each time I have to write one of those words in either language.
 
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