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Comment by yomismoaqui

4 days ago

Sorry, edited for clarity.

PS: I learned that acronym less than a year ago, so maybe it is not as used as I thought.

It's pretty common, but I guess just for English people (or maybe just in Canada as hinted in another post?)? Either way I'm all for eliminating acronyms in public posts!

  • It's very common the US as well, but primarily in education circles. I honestly have no idea what percent of the general public would recognize it immediately (hard to know for anything, really).

  • It's common and wrong. I had to do "ESL" courses at a Canadian secondary school, even though English is my third language, not second.

    • Ha, technically correct but also a little nitty. "First" and "second" are colloquial used here as "main" and "other." But again, you're not wrong.

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    • "Subsequent Language"? "Successor Language"? "Secondary Language"?

      Feel like there is an "S" word that works