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Close....You've typed this out in English after having achieved such AN unlockING.

• woooooo 1y ago
  Online English can definitely use "unlock" as a noun like that, it comes from gaming culture. An unlocking would be less idiomatic IMO.
  • throaway955 1y ago
    yeesh, "online English." L337 h4xors with uber skillz? "achieving unlock" is grammatically incorrect (im a native English speaker), if its idiomatic then of course that's different, but I wouldn't put that down as being "fluent," id put it down to be exposed to those specific idioms. It's not just about using the verb as a noun; where is the indefinite article? If the gp was making a "I can has cheeseburgers?" style joke, then it went over my head, but it clearly is not grammatically correct English just because its used online.
    • woooooo 1y ago
      Did you just lead off a linguistic purity rant with "yeesh"?
      • throaway955 1y ago
        no, and "yeesh," is in the dictionary in any case.
  • timr 1y ago
    Good illustration of the comment about true fluency being able to play with the language. English takes this to pro level, of course.
    • throaway955 1y ago
      It's incorrect English. If its idiomatic then its idiomatic. But its not a marker of fluency; its a marker of being exposed to a culture which uses those idioms.