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by lucb1e 402 days ago
> Everyone likes their mother tongue better

Speak for your own mother (tongue)! I think there are (many) better languages than my mother tongue but I haven't been able to convince the natives of this yet. The oscillate between catching on and regaining national pride (we're currently in a nationalism phase, where they're pushing to teach more in dutch again rather than a language everybody understands and needs for research and business anyway, source: https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/actueel/nieuws/uni...)

> But like many delicacies, it is an acquired taste

Why say lot word when two word do trick? Stockholm syndrome!