"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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Here they are all said exactly the same![]()
Yeah, english contractions used to drive my German friends nuts. Especially when speaking with fast-talking northern americans.
"They're moving their camp over there.", spoken aloud with my Michigan accent = sounds identical, though I admit "they're" should have a longer "ay" sound in the middle to recognize the 'ey' of they.
"Of" is another one that confuses. 'Should've', 'would've', could've' get written as should of, would of & could of, because of the similar sound. Drives me crazy.
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Imho English grammar is incredibly straightforward and easy. German and French are much more complicated.
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"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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Well, English technically isn't my first language, but it's the one I'm most fluent in.
I know all the grammar, but ignore certain rules either for ease of use or because I just disagree with them.
I sometimes devolve into an Eastern-Europeanish accent when aggravated.
All of this really shows that you should not use contractions. "Should'of" is grammatically nonsensical, but it is the most common mistake children make both speaking and writing. You really have to make sure they don't get the two confused, or it can mean a lifetime of error.
I have an unfair advantage over pretty much everyone in the world though, I have a clerkly (i.e. educated, not posh) Hampshire/Surrey accent; more or less the defnition of "Standard English".
"If it wears trousers generally I don't pay attention."
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me speak right. yall just wrong
I'm Chinese. Just imagine the transfer between phonetic and character-based......
I also speak a bit of French, Spanish, and German. English, with no genders for words, is unbelievably simple. Of course, we have to balance that out with absurd pronounciation.
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