Stamets@lemmy.world to ADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 year agoThey are VERY differentlemmy.worldimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1376arrow-down13
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minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·1 year agoSince when did “borrow” start meaning “lend?”
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agopeople confuse those two a lot. especially non-native speakers who’s languages have one word for borrow and lend
minus-squarePotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI’m a native speaker I’m just dumb
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agomaybe your knowledge of german corrupted you then? 😭 i see the .de in your instance name
minus-squarePotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoI’m German but became fluent in English before school so I consider myself native. Anyway what I’m trying to say is I’m really good at being bad in two languages at the same time
minus-squareshneancy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agothat is so fair. i’m polish and learnt english the same way natives do, so i consider myself near native, and i also suck at both of my langauges
minus-square1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agonah plenty of people say “borrow” to mean “lend”. language isn’t rigid and set in stone.
Since when did “borrow” start meaning “lend?”
people confuse those two a lot. especially non-native speakers who’s languages have one word for borrow and lend
I’m a native speaker I’m just dumb
maybe your knowledge of german corrupted you then? 😭 i see the .de in your instance name
I’m German but became fluent in English before school so I consider myself native. Anyway what I’m trying to say is I’m really good at being bad in two languages at the same time
that is so fair. i’m polish and learnt english the same way natives do, so i consider myself near native, and i also suck at both of my langauges
nah plenty of people say “borrow” to mean “lend”. language isn’t rigid and set in stone.