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		Aachen on Sept 30, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rimac unveils SineStack, battery energy storage sy... > Homologation is the granting of approval by an official authority. For anyone else to whom this word is news and didn't understand that the "and" meant "which can be translated to English as"

fruit2020 on Sept 30, 2023 [–]

This word is common in latin based languages.

Aachen on Sept 30, 2023 | [–]

English is not latin-based but germanic afaik

kwhitefoot on Sept 30, 2023 | | [–]

The 60% of the vocabulary that came via French might have something to say about that.

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