All these examples of weird English usage are generally more slang or informal. As to making the language more difficult to learn, I'd say only if you wanted to pick up on absolutely everything, which with a foreign language or advanced lanuage usage you might not exactly need.
But then again, some understanding of such examples can come down to tone of voice, facial expression and gestures, as with any other strange phrases in any language. Edit: I was looking at the expressions such as 'wise guy'. The other things are so uncommon (such as plural of BOOTH) that they're... slightly reduntant? Lol |
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Who can explain why the I in 'since' sounds different from the one in 'bi', which is the same sound you find in 'bye' but there's no I there xD In English there're many letter combinations that have the same sound: week ~ weak, whine ~wine, knight ~night, wear ~where ~were, wait ~ weight, write ~ right, and so on. Quote:
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But I agree about it being a direct language. In English you can say in 5 words what in any other language would take a whole paragraph xDDD |
"were" isn't pronounced the same as "where" and "wear" though...
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1) There should be a comma after "English" 2) "And the second highest is a boy from Korean", Since you didn't specify that you were talking about the person with the highest percentage, it could be taken as if the second highest percentage IS a boy from Korea, not that the second hightest percentage is held by a boy from Korea. Also, "Korean" isn't a country, Korea is. You call the people from Korea, Korean. 3) There should be either a comma OR semi-colon after what is supposed to be Korea. 4) "hes" is incorrect, it's a contraction for "he is" therefore there should be an apostraphe after the "e" and before the "s" 5) Weren't you ever taught not to start a sentence with a conjunction! And= conjunction That sentence should've been written, "I'm passing English, I have the highest percentage in my class! The second highest percentage is held by a boy from Korea; hes only been here for 3 years." just thought I'd point that out |
lol @ XjapanFOREVER... What you pointed out is good, but your fifth point isn't true... you can start a sentence with And!!
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Anyways, thank you for... being so nice towards other users =) Quote:
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Right, it doesn't quite sound the same but that's cause one follows the other and we unintentionally make them sound different :rolleyes: lol ok maybe not... but then how come that people mistype them all the time? |
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You can start with one, but it's highly frowned upon..
lol... I seriously didn't catch that.... lol.. It seriously wasn't meant to be mean, it was sort of a paradox. She claimed to have the highest grade in English, yet her writing wasn't exactly showing it My first line was originally "....because it suX." It was a play on X JAPAN, but I figured someone else would be like "you spelled "sucks" wrong, so I changed it. |
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