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"Our entire culture is like that, really! We have a saying--'English doesn't borrow words from other languages'--English is my language--'English doesn't borrow words from other languages, it follows them down dark alleys, mugs them, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary'." 

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Kamuor laughs.

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"Our spelling is insane. This one country, the Roman Empire, spread its alphabet everywhere so a ton of different languages ended up using it and inventing their own spelling rules, and so English kept importing the spellings or slightly mangled versions thereof when we stole the words--we have competitions for our children, of who can spell the most complicated words right--"

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"Oh, they have those some places, but not places with alphabets, I don't think."

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"We have an alphabet!" 

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Giggle.

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"We argue with other countries that speak the same language over how to pronounce one of the letters!" 

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"Oh, that we have, there are accents. Even within countries."

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"Do any accents cover the difference between zee and zed?" 

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"I don't know what that is."

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"Zee is what my country called the letter. Zed is what literally everyone else did." 

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"Oh, the name of the letter itself, not the way it's pronounced in words."

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"I'm not aware of anyone who does that but I haven't learned all the alphabets there are and things are often simplified for foreign learners."

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"This is true, I think the zee/zed dichotomy wouldn't be in anyone's Intro to English class even if they had slightly fewer insane conjugations to grapple with." 

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"Do the natives all even know?"

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"Man, I doubt it, Americans can get kinda oblivious to the rest of the world sometimes." 

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"Tapai are like that! Voans aren't, you'd think they would be since they were the actual biggest country till Tapa took that province, but they're not."

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"We're not the biggest country in the world either, and I think China's less like that than us but I could be wrong." 

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"I wonder what does it."

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"Well...power, maybe. It's not the same thing as size." 

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"They're pretty closely correlated, aren't they?"

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"Pretty closely, but not so much that it's surprising that it's the second-biggest country that does the thing instead of the biggest." 

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"Yeah. Tapa was smaller than Voa and took the province anyway. Probably because they've got a eugenic system and Voa doesn't."

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"Eennnh, I wouldn't bet on it. The same kinds of things show up on my world and we do zero eugenics." 

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