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Gentle suggestions, this is not an advice column

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Gentle suggestions, this is not an advice column

Dec 2, 2020
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Gentle suggestions, this is not an advice column

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There is a constant war waging in my brain about the precise meanings of words. I find it endlessly frustrating and fascinating and I also often need one language to help explain another.

Even though I have been speaking English fluently for almost 2 decades, it only recently occurred to me that savoir-faire, a canonical French notion does not mean the …

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