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Do you understand what the poor font choice led to?

gerardM a écrit:

So true !

I speak two languages: English and sarcasm.

Did you get it?

gerardM a écrit:

Did you get it?

Hi Gérard 
your nuts (fruit) is different from you're nuts (You are mad)

Your nuts : also slang for genitals.  

Hi Muriel,

MurielB a écrit:

gerardM a écrit:Did you get it?

Hi Gérard 
your nuts (fruit) is different from you're nuts (You are mad)

> your nuts (fruit)
You are right but there's something else...
Take care of (foreign) languages especially American... I guess it's the same in any language including French but in French I easily catch the context.
I came back from my first immersion in the American language with the idea/certainty that behind every word, there may be an ambiguity because there's very often a double-entendre (Fr sous-entendu grivois) and very often it means "gay" (crazy the number of English words around this). To really learn a language, you need a very good friend with lots of patience (thus I could learn much with a girlfriend).
I assume that for Grammarly, pointing out a big ambiguity, thinks of a slang meaning... in French, we've got the same sexual meaning behind the word "nuts". Look it into your dictionary.

An anecdote: I remember a young Italian girl who spoke a very fluent French. She asked a friend of hers: "Tu vas coucher ?" (instead of "Vas-tu te coucher ?"): I taught her the ambuguity of her words

Sorry Guilaine, your response was on new page and I hadn't seen it.