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Nexus_produces t1_j25viom wrote

Reply to comment by lamina1211 in If SpaceX is the only company to land on mars for years, can they lay claim to the land? by --Lavish--

On a weird tangent, are you an English speaking native perchance? It's funny to see terra written in an English context since it's the word for earth in romance languages (and sol for sun) of which I'm a native speaker.

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lamina1211 t1_j25w665 wrote

English is my first, and only language. I speak a miniscule amount of German, but not enough to claim it. Even less French, Spanish and Italian.

But I enjoy words. I have a bit of a natural ear for etymology... I've been accused of being a wordsmith, but I'm really just a dumb redneck.

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Nexus_produces t1_j2680bk wrote

Yeah I enjoy language immensely, I am fortunate enough to have a knack for it and I become very engaged when people use out of the ordinary vocabulary due to so many years of vocabulary acquisition. It's kind of funny for me when I hear latin words in english speech because they are pretty much regular words I use in my own language or something very close.

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