
Lost in Translation
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Is This Duolingo?
i did some really hard hitting investigative journalism. i emailed duolingo's media team, and they got back to me right away. I sent them t tik tok video. They actually also gave me a reason for why the word blood comes so much in the russian laens. It's one of a relatively small number of words that end in a consonant, but take feminine agreement. So blood is being used to teach a particular grammatical agreement pattern. That's actually a very boring way not trying to free mation o. Or is it just like, no, you guss, we're all learning the same stuff, ye?
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