• protist@mander.xyz
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      11 hours ago

      Apparently that one doesn’t follow this rule, and is instead derived from the Latin word “retardare,” meaning “to make something go slower.”

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        As a Spanish speaker, I was already aware of that, but imagine if someone thought that the act of reting was a thing by analogy