• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    OH MY GOD

    This made me laugh for like 2 mins and a literal tear came out of my eye. Thank you for that reaction.

    Last year I thought “acolyte des illustres” was just a turn of phrase for pretensious people. I didn’t realise you meant they use that phrase instead of follower.

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/acolyte_des_illustres

    I did very much enjoy that exchange as the mutual semi-intelligibility between romance languages, I thought looking it up too hard would have ruined it.

    I still wish they would be more bold with introducing much needed changes to the languages. As a shitty polyglot, I do get frustrated that there’s too much english in the other languages when I try to speak it with friends and family. I know “leptop” is easier to say in turkish, but I want “dizüstü bilgisayarı” since it’s the actual turkic fucking word for it.