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Paper is the new privacy measure. (discuss.online)
submitted 1 week ago by Zephorah@discuss.online to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As hetero women we will often refer to friends who are girls as girlfriends. You could be right, but the 7 here is what I just described.

[–] TRock@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

English is weird with that. Other languages have a separate word for friend and for partner

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

English doesn't even have a word for person who you are engaged to be married to. Luckily French had two, so they shared.

[–] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, English is just a collection of loanwords pasted haphazardly onto a bastardization skeleton of Germanic and romance languages.

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