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Native English is the new Latin. Born French, I'm good in English, but I remarked I had something to learn when I noticed I couldn't understand anyone in that country [1] although they could understand each other and were speaking with the same actual rules.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singlish#Grammar




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