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I think it's a bit quick to want that variant to be actual already, but eventual we might be able to make it work.
by Vinnl 3mo ago
I think it's a bit quick to want that variant to be actual already, but eventual we might be able to make it work.
- rvnx 3mo agoIt's a weird broken import of French (could be because the EU Parliament) is in Brussels so highly French-speaking. It's also still very incoherent, it mixes up billion and trillion, and it mixes up milliard (the French equivalent) with billion. You absolutely do not want ambiguity there when you work professionally as a politician. deadline supposed to come from delay but it is incorrect use in French. cabinet is toilet. etc It's an artificial invented variant, like a kid would invent its own language to speak to other kids, not something that was born out of habit and unified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto shares a similar issue but at least it's cute and more logical though. AI would be good at creating an international language
- Vinnl 3mo agoI don't think it's just French. The million-billion distinction is different from English in many European languages - [1] lists basically every language other than English in the EU. And in my example, "actual" to mean "current" and "eventual" to mean "possibly" are at least also present in Dutch and sometimes used in that way in the EU. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_usage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales#Current_...
- dgellow 3mo agowell done, took me a bit to notice :)
- sph 3mo agoWorks pretty well in Italian as well