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p1esk
on April 24, 2023
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Bilingualism affords no general cognitive advantag...
“Parachute” is identical in Russian, because in both languages it came from French.
lostmsu
on April 24, 2023
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It was a trick question. Parent said you can translate anything to Russian. That's a rather uninteresting statement in practice given the parachute example. And there are entire kinds of such examples different in nature.
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