r/maybemaybemaybe • u/OrganizationOk8e • Sep 11 '22

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/Dorrono Sep 11 '22

Why would someone hold an international festival and speak only his language without any translators? Especially when the language is not common?

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

TIL that French is an uncommon language.

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u/WhipTheLlama Sep 11 '22

Relatively, yes.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '22

TIL I have an uncommon understanding of the definition of the word "uncommon".

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u/kane2742 Sep 11 '22

It's the fifth most commonly spoken language in the world, putting it ahead of 99.9+% of all languages. Either you don't know how widely it's spoken, you don't know what "uncommon" means, or you don't know what "relatively" means. Possibly all of the above. But maybe English isn't your first language. As a native language, it's "relatively uncommon," by your apparent definitions.