Wikipedia's national flavors - French
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Epistemic status: Almost completely idiosyncraticReading in different languages feels quite different, and Wikipedia makes this especially salient.[1] But I find it hard to articulate what these "national flavors" are, let alone communicate them. They become clearest in their characteristic failure modes:[2] German-flavored failure has to do with being so accurate that nothing is said. Spanish-flavored failure involves imitating French erudition and sounding like a fanboy. Oddly, Standard Englis
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