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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (7 children)

As an Arabic speaker I have never heard of number 3, though Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat so that's not saying much.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Arabic is more like forty languages in a trench coat

    It has so much in common with English

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Even the English one is from the 1950s, there's so many more phrases used these days that are highly regionally dependent, not even just an American English vs British English but different cities will sometimes have their own preferences.

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