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thank you. I will be going through this book as early as possible.

• selimthegrim 6y ago
  Nitpick: “...as soon as possible” sounds more natural to native speakers Ulugh Beg’s observatory was what Ottomans’ short lived one was built to compete with
  • idlewords 6y ago
    What sounds most natural to native speakers is not correcting people's language unasked.
    • selimthegrim 6y ago
      Fair enough, but he and I share a native non-English language, so I thought I was being helpful.
      • 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
        i often try to keep my language as close to british english but very sometimes there is a slip up. I try to avoid this though
        • selimthegrim 6y ago
          In Urdu the distinction is a little different and probably very seldom arises in the English sense (e.g. jaldi utho vs jaldi se utho when what is meant is like subah sawere (se) utho) so it's not your fault. https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hindi-urdu-early-to-do-something.3105836/ https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/hindi-urdu-early-to-...
    • BeetleB 6y ago
      A lot of people hate being corrected on language, but many welcome it. In my life, I've certainly had my fair share of people come to me upset saying "I've been saying it wrong all this time and you never told me!" Best not to jump to conclusions about the speaker's wishes.
  • 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
    urrghh... i was "thinking" of writing "i will be devouring this book as fast as possible" because wink wink torrents but changed the wording because i didn't want to write the "t" word but yeah