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Sometimes I can tell where my ESL coworkers learned English based on phrasing and idioms. It would be interesting to come across someone who honed English skil
by mulmen 5y ago
Sometimes I can tell where my ESL coworkers learned English based on phrasing and idioms. It would be interesting to come across someone who honed English skills with such a domain-specific application.
- atatatat 5y agoLook up "do the needful". It's not a myth, just regional.
- zeropoint46 5y agoOh man this is a flashback to a previous job that I did not need.
- gundmc 5y agoI've heard this phrase used by non-native English speakers, but are you suggesting it comes from practicing within a particular domain? If so, which?
- nerdponx 5y agoAlso using "doubt" as synonymous with "question". There was a pretty interesting cluster of threads here on HN a while ago about English in business environments with lots of anecdotes about learning English in various "non-English" societies.
- sanxiyn 5y agoI was told I speak like writing of LotR. Must be true since that's really how I learned English.
- endymi0n 5y agoNegative. Mike Uniform Lima, please descend to flight level one zero, turn heading zero tree one abeam Sierra and request alternate approach.
- mrisoli 5y agoI picked up a lot of conversational english because the TV Show Friends was on pretty much during the entire afternoon when I was a teenager and I would spend most of my time after school watching it. Since I spent a lot of time in english-speaking professional environments for the last few years I managed to deviate a little bit from "Friends style" speak but I still end up saying "like" often if I start rambling. A lot of people I know also have a bit of a vice with the word "like" and picked it up from Friends as well, it's an interesting thing to notice.
- scruffyherder 5y agoI worked with a mainframe operator that learned English from I love Lucy. It was interesting.. He honned in the Ricky pretty well I thought it was a gag but no its how he learned.