I genuinely hate how English is becoming a sort of de facto global language. Just more cultural imperialism. But it's very nice to be able to communicate with comrades from around the world, it might be my favorite aspect of this site. So I do appreciate you all taking effort to think something in your native language, translate it in your head, then type it up in English. Hopefully in FALGSC we'll get our universal translators, too.

For real, learning languages is hard. I had 2 years of Spanish in high school and didn't do too well, something in my brain just didn't click. But maybe you need to use another language a lot to really learn it? I lived in Germany for just two months and by the end I found myself kinda picking up things.

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    • Owl [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This is completely true. Native English speakers only think of the particularly long and folksy sounding idioms as idioms, the fact that something like "24/7" or "draw the line" is also an idiom is completely missed.

      Also English is full of weird constructs where some special collection of words acts as a noun, in a way that doesn't work any other time. And I can't even think of any examples because I am a native English speaker lol.