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throaway955
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1y ago
no, and "yeesh," is in the dictionary in any case.
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Dyson spheres aren't real.
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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.
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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
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Is there not a big difference between Canadiens living in a Francophone province (one that they founded hundreds of years ago), speaking French as a first language and practicing French culture, and Italian-Americans speaking English and li
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1y ago
James Keelaghan, Stephen Fearing, Skinny Puppy...hundreds more. Also, the comment you replied to said that those names he mentioned were the relatively famous ones. The ones who are less famous than that will not have the success you mentio
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Not false in any way. The life of the middle-income touring performer used to exist and is gone now..
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French-Canadians think they're French-Canadian, not "French."
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Yes, and the ones who can master pronunciation are the ones who realize that languages are just codified ways of expressing human sound. Then you can start to see them all as phonetic expressions, instead of as translations.
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Yes, I am an accent coach and many immigrants do not accept this fact. They resist and resist out of stubbornness or laziness. I try to explain to them that people will react better if they can speak the native language like the natives to
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Close....You've typed this out in English after having achieved such AN unlockING.
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1y ago
Mr. Doctor Professor