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November 8th 2011, 02:15 PM
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darksign13
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Languages change over time and what you learnt 5 or 10 years ago doesn't mean that language (eg English) stays static. There is always new words being added and new inferences. Great example of this is I learnt some German at school from a native German lady who lived there a long time before coming to NZ, yet when I visited Germany last year - words that I was taught as being in correct use, had changed and were no longer used in the same context.


I have been told by Germans that this is especially bad in their language. They go through figures of speech like crud through a goose. Native Germans can leave the country for a couple of years then come back to find they can barely understand any one any more.