I guess it depends on exactly how wrong the other person is. Most things can just be shrugged off with an eye-roll. If you're an English teacher, this is probably not something you're going to let go. At least not very easily.

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Posted by StrawsDrawnAtRandom

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Posted on 10/8/15 at 5:23 pm to VagueMessage

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I guess it depends on exactly how wrong the other person is. Most things can just be shrugged off with an eye-roll. If you're an English teacher, this is probably not something you're going to let go. At least not very easily.

It's torture because I have this debate regularly. I'm not saying English is a better language (okay I am), but I have this chat at least once every group. About how Spanish is harder (I have many friends not just from Europe but from Hong Kong who say it's much easier than English), it has a larger vocabulary and how it's more expressive than English when it's just completely untrue.

Unilaterally. The only people who say it has a larger vocabulary are Spanish-speaking people. Heck, even now if you look at a site like Wiktionary which lists prefixes alone we have over 1,100 whereas Spanish has somewhere in the range of 200. That's just prefixes, not even the words they're attached to.

Although, I guess I really love her if I'm just gonna let this go.