Re: Are you tough enough to be the \"King of the Hi
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Alneyan said:
Some nasty English words have a spelling fairly similar to the one found in French, but not quite. These words cause no small amount of confusion and can still bit me if I'm not watching. Let's take a few examples of this pattern:
English -> Broken French \ Proper French :
- Appearance -> Apparance \ Apparence
- Conflict -> Conflict \ Conflit
- Independence -> Indépendence \ Indépendance.
- Reasonable -> Raisonable \ Raisonnable
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Confusing as that example might be, it doesn't hold a candle to the confusion I have with nouns being male/female and needing the appropriate article to go with it. As difficult as English is, there's at least one worry I don't have to worry about. 
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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot separately plunder a third. (Ambrose Bierce)
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