Incredibly true! There's a lot of shibboleths, odd turns of phrase, that come from people translating their thoughts literally into another language. Japanese

Incredibly true! There's a lot of shibboleths, odd turns of phrase, that come from people translating their thoughts literally into another language. Japanese > English for example, you'll hear people say things like, "What are you doing from now?" It's also very common to mix up articles, so I hear a lot of things being inflected very definitely, but they will use the indefinite article. Ex: "That band is great, but the singer is a problem." Grammatically correct, but a shade of meaning to the left of what they were trying to say.