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Clarification Edit: for people who speak English natively and are learning a second language

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[-] stinerman@midwest.social 2 points 5 months ago

I'm learning French so I'm not the best person to ask.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I know a few languages, English not being the first one. But I too have learned that not only might English be broken, but so might my mental and cultural skills with it. Though I figure priority one is whether what I say follows grammatical rules. Political manifestos, which this place is all too familiar with, don't even have that, yet people seem to understand what they're saying if people are going around saying how wise they are.

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[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

Learning English taught me how broken English is knight or phone is a good start.

[-] Neon@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

quite simple: I learned english

[-] PopcornPrincess@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I say “correct” more frequently now when in agreement instead of “right.” 🤷‍♀️

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 5 months ago

English's biggest problem as a language is the efforts to break it even further. This idea that popular things push that state of the ever-evolving language is why we have 'mid' and 'based', which are completely detrimental no matter how fetch they seem. People who find apostrophes hard to use should not be driving the evolution of a language on some famewhore channel.

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[-] match@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago

I knew English was broken well before I learned a second language

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