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Neither beer nor speech were the topics of discussion. "Free as in speech rather than free as in beer" is an analogy commonly used to specify that you're talkin
by mort96 10mo ago
Neither beer nor speech were the topics of discussion. "Free as in speech rather than free as in beer" is an analogy commonly used to specify that you're talking about freedom rather than money.
- swiftcoder 10mo agoBeing the only Romance language that doesn't have separate words for "libre" and "gratis" (liberté and gratuit, etc), has its downsides
- tbrownaw 10mo ago> only Romance language ...But we're (mostly) not one?
- swiftcoder 10mo agoI mean, yes and no? In common speech we certainly lean more on Germanic vocabulary (and grammar!), but the dictionary overall has a lot more French/Latin-derived vocabulary than it does Germanic - many of them overly formal/technical for daily speech (Entertainingly, modern German also adopted the Latin-rooted "gratis")
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- irishcoffee 10mo agoI could make an argument that "Complimentary" would be analogous to gratis in this context.