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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English
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On 02/02/18 00:08, Jack wrote:
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>  >> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example".
>  >
>  > A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin?

And Latin's descendants (which are mutually comprehensible) are actually 
the most widely spoken first language in Europe. I always thought Europe 
should adopt Modern Latin (however you care to define it) as its main 
official language.

(Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian put together are very similar and are 
larger than any other grouping of similar European language, excluding 
perhaps Russian which is spoken mostly by non-EU nationals.)

Cheers,
Wol