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Everyone likes their mother tongue better, so does Mark Twain. No need to write a whole treatise about it. Having lived 10+ years in Switzerland and having lea
by mikl 1y ago
Everyone likes their mother tongue better, so does Mark Twain. No need to write a whole treatise about it.
Having lived 10+ years in Switzerland and having learned the language (and the local dialects), I really like German. But like many delicacies, it is an acquired taste.
- lucb1e 1y ago> Everyone likes their mother tongue better Speak for your own mother (tongue)! I think there are (many) better languages than my mother tongue but I haven't been able to convince the natives of this yet. The oscillate between catching on and regaining national pride (we're currently in a nationalism phase, where they're pushing to teach more in dutch again rather than a language everybody understands and needs for research and business anyway, source: https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/actueel/nieuws/universiteiten-nemen-maatregelen-om-instroom-internationale-studenten-te-beheersen https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/actueel/nieuws/uni...) > But like many delicacies, it is an acquired taste Why say lot word when two word do trick? Stockholm syndrome!