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If you read this post, you probably won’t look at the world the same way ever again.

I immediately wanted to close the tab. But I decided to not judge an article by the first sentence.

So I read on and it's just talking about how English has words with similar meanings but different etymological origins, plus some English grammar trivia.

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Every American is bilingual.

is completely unjustified. In the same vein every Japanese is bilingual or more. But the author is selling a book about marketing & copywriting so that's it.

(By the way, in the AI example the article shows, Claude thinks "ever again" can be replaced with "perpetually subsequently." Whether it's a joke is left to the reader.)

> Every American is bilingual. > is completely unjustified. In the same vein every Japanese is bilingual or more.

Or just as stupidly, so many of us are just mono-lingual, we just speak proto-Indo-European.

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