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No, but I’m gonna run his code anyway
No, but I’m gonna run his code anyway
Your spells are dadisms
“Walk it off” - cure light wounds
“If I told you once I told you a thousand times…” - command
“Great job, kiddo” - bless
“What you’re gonna wanna do is…” - guidance
You get the idea
I didn’t want to come off dismissive asking how often you’re talking about those specific kinds of plants but maybe it’s a relevant question after all lol
I think you and I have very different experiences. I rarely see that kind of correction if ever.
When you’re in a public space you never know when your words are being consumed by an ESL speaker. I think the best approach is natural yet accurate. They’re going to encounter contractions when dealing with native speakers, but the difference between it’s and its, for example, can be tricky so try to use them as taught.
Spelling mistakes can absolutely be an issue. It’s already hard enough to figure out English spelling without native speakers making it worse. Add on to that the difficulty in any added language of working out near homophones, let alone actual homophones.
I knew someone who was pretty decent with English as their third language but had trouble keeping Texas and taxes straight. I know another guy who is American and uses no in place of know. That one threw me for a while before I figured out what he was trying to say.
I will admit, I do like that “technically” the plural for octopus is “supposed to be” octopods (pronounced like oc-tip-o-dees) but that’s a fun “fact”, not a correction I’ve ever tried to make.
90+% of the time you get common mistakes. Should ofs, they’re - there - their confusions, apostrophes for plurals.
The kind of thing that confuses ESL speakers. The decent thing would seem to be to try and stick to the way it’s taught rather than go with the “it doesn’t matter” route when it absolutely matters to some.
I’m juggling 3 languages
We Americans like to forget that anyone might have any trouble understanding English especially in cases of polyglots.
I don’t know which is your native tongue but from this comment it looks like you’re doing a fine job.
Except that it would be “they should, of course,”.
Also that person may have known what you meant, but another might not and may have any number of reasons for not asking.
Better communication skills are a worthwhile goal and there’s no good reason to not learn and grow.
I don’t know how anyone but Frakes could be Xanatos
Hire the illegals
Hires any kind of immigrant
The illegals are stealing our jobs!
It never ceases to amaze me that the actor who played an idiot on News Radio, and never really seemed like he was acting, has become what he has.
Given him and Andy Dick both were on there, maybe someone should check in on Dave Foley and Stephen Root.
Sorry, can’t help but make light of this fucker’s bullshit, pardon the French.
It’s no trouble at all, but I don’t know what a seal has to do with any of this or how you spelled phoque so badly
A worthwhile thing to keep in mind whether it’s for tea, supplements, or whatever, is that medication is based on things that were observed from “natural” sources.
For example, willow bark was/is/has been used for pain and inflammation. It also contains salicin which is similar to acetysalicylic acid, which you’ll know better as aspirin.
Does that mean all the things people say do a thing work? Not at all. Do some of them have varying degrees of effect of some percentage of people? Yes.
Satan wants me to put fun first, Jesus is a rules lawyer. That checks out
You are technically correct
The best kind of correct
This is inaccurate
Some of us aren’t under 40
And a whatever-you-like-front property
At that point is it some shit, or all the shit?
Woman’s had to have seen things that would make the dark corners of the internet shiver
Once at a Waffle House in Florida I had a waitress that said she gets to work whatever shift she wants now because she did overnights for more than twenty years.
Yes but he serves a different community