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I'm bilingual (so not fully native by most criteria) and I read enough classic English literature to actually use "proceeded" regularly, as well as multiple oth
by rcarmo 11mo ago
I'm bilingual (so not fully native by most criteria) and I read enough classic English literature to actually use "proceeded" regularly, as well as multiple other more established means of conveying my intended meaning :)
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- JumpCrisscross 11mo ago> classic English literature to actually use "proceeded" regularly Huh, apparently 'proceeded' was used more commonly in 19th-century writing [1]. [1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Proceeded&year_start=1800&year_end=2022&case_insensitive=true&corpus=en&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Proceeded&year...
- rcarmo 11mo agoWell, I read Dickens, Hawthorne, Austen...
- komali2 10mo agoI meant it more in the modern usage where it's either thrown in liberally when using cop-speak, or by tumbler/redditor type writers when they're trying to be funny. "He then proceeded to" in these situations can basically always just be "he (verb)".