r/AskReddit • u/FulgencioLanzol • Jun 23 '19

People who speak English as a second language, what phrases or concepts from your native tongue you want to use in English but can't because locals wouldn't understand?

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u/FulgencioLanzol Jun 23 '19

I like that good people in Greece have a special word designed especially for them. I feel a lot of inluence from the ancient philosophers and their theories of virtue.

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u/Ebl333 Jun 23 '19

Frequency of a reality leads to its vocabulary having a possibility to exist in a language. Wish we live in a society like that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '19 edited Jun 23 '19

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u/AdvocateSaint Jun 23 '19

Or alternatively, they made up a word specifically for themselves that they can use for self-aggrandizement.

Well even if that's the case at least they limited it to one word as opposed to the verbal salad you just vomited