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by Joker_vD 791 days ago
And finally I've seen the (variation of the) argument usually applied to the Russians, about their slavish nature ("During the Stalin's reign, half of the country was in jail and the other half was the jailers" etc.) leading to the impossibility for them to form a civilized and liberal society, which is usually retorted with an example of the Australians... being applied to the Australians itself.

No, one doesn't need to be of good breed to be freely able to speak multisyllabic words.

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> No, one doesn't need to be of good breed to be freely able to speak multisyllabic words.

Eh? Not what I'm saying at all. Breed has nothing to do with it... circumstance has much more to do with word shortenings... not sure what I got downvoted for...