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#anyway this isn't to say that alternative versions like 'precisely' don't exist but they're not theeeee go-to version. right
liapher
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wait, do en/sv/no/de all have a different word meaning 'exact' that's (part of) the prototypical affirmative utterance
#exactly 🤝 precis 🤝 akkurat 🤝 genau
#i learned about precis vs akkurat v quickly after arriving in norway bc i kept using 'precis'
#and people clocked me immediately as 'learned some swedish at some point'
#anyway this isn't to say that alternative versions like 'precisely' don't exist but they're not theeeee go-to version. right?
#or is this down to personal preference / geographic/etc. variation
#the worst part about being into linguistic variation is that the actual recorded data are fairly limited :/
#anyway i do enjoy going around asking various acquaintances 'how would you express [x]' / 'does [x construction] sound natural to you'
#maybe. i should stay in academia.
#wow amazing how every thought i have manages to eventually lead to the question
#'what am i gonna do with my life once this semester is over' 🙃
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