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> Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop signs say "stop", since it's a perfectly valid word in French.

Here's another interesting fact which I suspect is more of a fact than "your" fact: Almost all countries in Europe has stop signs with the word "Stop" because it was agreed upon in 1968.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Si...



Thank you. I did not know that before.

I've corrected my OP.


That is an admirably charitable response to a comment that I could not truthfully characterize the same way. Good job by you.


I mean, you weren't wrong. Stop/stopper is valid French...


How you wrote this response is a bit dickish tbh.


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Man, it's no way to live life being this mean.

Remember the human.


Well 'stopper' is now a valid French word. No idea if it became a thing because of this or always was a thing. https://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/stopper/74789




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