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> If you say "get down from the car," you're (likely) using that phrase only to people outside your environment. It's lack of fluency. Fluency doesn't mean you
by TazeTSchnitzel 3y ago
> If you say "get down from the car," you're (likely) using that phrase only to people outside your environment. It's lack of fluency.
Fluency doesn't mean you never make such mistakes, and it also doesn't prevent you picking up unusual phrasing from your environment, even when it might have originated as a mistake. In a heavily German but English-speaking workplace, it's not just the Germans who use “until” to mean “by”.