• SomeoneElseMod@feddit.ukOPM
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    1 year ago

    The first reply to this post was asking what nano was so I thought I’d add an explanation with added Musk nonsense. Yesterday I posted in !confidently_incorrect and found that some people didn’t know what “soup du jour” meant in English so I’m erring on the side of caution today!

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      1 year ago

      It’s absolutely appreciated regardless!

      It’s always nice when stupid discussions introduced by trolls in bad faith ends up being an opportunity to actually learn something interesting. :)

      Also got me googling to check if “soup du jour” meant something else than soup of the day in English - you had me intrigued for a second!

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        You’re welcome! Someone replied on the soup de jour post that they “didn’t speak French” and I thought they were trolling at first. I assumed it was a well known loan word for all native English speakers, like RVSP, déjà-vu, cul-de-sac, chaise lounge etc etc. That’s what I get for making assumptions!

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          I think there’s a chance you might indeed be overestimating the average English speaker’s proficiency in loan words! Good thing dictionaries are not hard to find these days. :)