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That’s really interesting thanks for sharing

As a German native speaker reading the first few examples this just sounds a lot like literal translations from German that I hear a lot of German speakers use when their English level isn’t that advanced (as I often perceive it to be the case for politicians as well) or only used at work and not gained from using/being exposed to English in native/cultural contexts:

Actor – Aktoren (commonly used fancy word in German government communication)

Actorness (not a direct translation but very common in German to make any noun into a different one through pre-/suffixes)

Actual – aktuell (means current and definitely not actual)

Adequate – adequat (means appropriate and definitely not adequate)



Same for French:

- Acteur

- Actuel

- Adéquat

(we don't have anything like actorness to my knowledge though)

What did they think if actual does not come from German nor French? :-)




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