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sergeykish 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

Ukrainian shares 84% of vocabulary with Belarusian, 70% with Polish, 66% with Slovak.

English and German share 60% of vocabulary.

psunavy03 10 months ago [–]

Except English, German, and Dutch are not mutually intelligible.

Although as an English-speaking native who has studied German, Dutch often maddeningly looks like it should make sense, but it doesn't.

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