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Ah, nothing can beat that old combo of ranting and/or correcting someone on the Internet. As an ESL person one of the first internet-related terms I learned wa
by yomismoaqui 10mo ago
Ah, nothing can beat that old combo of ranting and/or correcting someone on the Internet.
As an ESL person one of the first internet-related terms I learned was "flamewar".
EDIT: ESL -> English as a Second Language
- j3th9n 10mo agoESL?
- BrawnyBadger53 10mo agoEnglish second language
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- andruby 10mo ago"English as a Second Language" would be my guess, but I've never seen that used as an abbreviation
- the__alchemist 10mo agoIt's what they call (called?) the school programs in USA.
- squigz 10mo agoWe have that in Canada too
- detaro 10mo agoIt's a very common abbreviation for that
- c-linkage 10mo agoEnglish for Speakers of other Languages
- gilrain 10mo agoYou’re likely thinking of TESOL, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. ESL is English as a Second Language.
- yomismoaqui 10mo agoSorry, edited for clarity. PS: I learned that acronym less than a year ago, so maybe it is not as used as I thought.
- sodapopcan 10mo agoIt's pretty common, but I guess just for English people (or maybe just in Canada as hinted in another post?)? Either way I'm all for eliminating acronyms in public posts!
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoIt's common and wrong. I had to do "ESL" courses at a Canadian secondary school, even though English is my third language, not second.
- neutronicus 10mo ago"Subsequent Language"? "Successor Language"? "Secondary Language"? Feel like there is an "S" word that works
- sodapopcan 10mo agoHa, technically correct but also a little nitty. "First" and "second" are colloquial used here as "main" and "other." But again, you're not wrong.
- koakuma-chan 10mo agoEven if we were to admit that "first" meant "main" and "second" meant "other," it would still be wrong, because it is possible for your first language to no longer be your main language, which is the case for me.
- sodapopcan 10mo agoRight. Again, it's colloquial. These things happen in languages.