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Is there a word that sounds offensive or weird in English from your first language?
The word that means 'you are' in Korean sounds like the N word. One of my biggest fear is getting stoned to death socially by humming a song containing that word mindlessly... π
"He needs fed" - what is this grammar?
I've been watching a twitch streamer this weekend playing the Sims. She is from the USA and a native speaker and she is also white so I don't think its AAVE. Several times she has used this grammar structure: "He needs fed" - talking about a baby that needs feeding "You need painted" - talking about a wall that needs painting "It needs fixed" - In all these instances I would say "it needs fixing" or "it needs to be fixed" but it is like she is omitting the "to be". Why is she using this grammar structure? It sounds completely wrong to me. Thanks.
American English vs English Britain
I want to use British English instead of American English. Wonβt this be a problem? Since there are words that are the same but have different meanings?
A few question about English
1.Are British English and American English are much different each other? And are British able to understand what American say? And reverse? 2. Can English speaker catch each words in up-tempo English music?
Help!! What is this called?
Hello! I'm trying to do some homework and I need to write the name of this: It's for baking! Any help would be very helpful,thank you!
Wtf is google ai smoking
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How do you read β540β here? Five forty? Thanks.
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Does a T-shirt with words like that look weird to a native speaker
I've seen some "strange English on clothes" meme so I'm curious. for example, this outfit literally has a picture of a landscape tagged with its name and address. Is that weirdοΌ I also had a hoodie that I realized the picture on it was just a map of all rivers in a certain part of the United States with some village names on it... I had never noticed the English on my clothes before I planned to visit an English-speaking country. I've already picked out a lot of clothes that I absolutely can't wear because some of them literally have stuff like 'Turn into a werewolf' written on them, which is really cringe lol.
Why is 'Reagan' in 'Ronald Reagan' not pronounced as 'Ree-gan'?
Is it because people get to decide how their own (last) name is pronounced or is there a deeper explanation to it?
Why is it "were" and not "was"? I thought days are singular?
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