zman77
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English isn’t a language. It’s at least four languages in a trench coat pretending to be one.I didn't know where to put this, so here it is.
Who thought it would be a good idea to come up with the words compliment and complaint. I can imagine some poor foreign bastard getting feedback like 'We got a complaint. Good job, dimwit' and him replying 'I did my best, thank you. But my name is Dimitri'.
Another one:
'Keep in mind this product is inflammable'
'Da, inflammable'
RIP cremated poor foreign bastard.
I didn't know where to put this, so here it is.
Who thought it would be a good idea to come up with the words compliment and complaint. I can imagine some poor foreign bastard getting feedback like 'We got a complaint. Good job, dimwit' and him replying 'I did my best, thank you. But my name is Dimitri'.
Another one:
'Keep in mind this product is inflammable'
'Da, inflammable'
RIP cremated poor foreign bastard.
Guillaume le Bâtard again, I'm afraid.Who thought it would be a good idea to come up with the words compliment and complaint.
Guillaume le Bâtard again, I'm afraid.
Compliment
Borrowed from French compliment, itself a borrowing of Italian complimento, which in turn is a borrowing from Spanish cumplimiento, from cumplir (“to comply, complete, do what is proper”). Doublet of complement. Displaced Old English ġeswǣsnes.
Complaint
From Middle English compleynte, from Anglo-Norman compleint, from Old French compleindre, eventually from Latin planctus (whence plaint).