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How many of you are non-native English speakers? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by myszka@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

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[–] AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think the "proper" way to simplify it is would've, which is pronounced the same as 'would of'

A lot of mistakes have just become incorporated into the language in the past. Maybe 'would of' is just too blatantly wrong for that to ever happen though

Maybe not really a 'mistake', more of a normal shortening but my personal favorite english-ism is "bye" being descended directly from "god be with you". People just kept collapsing it more and more over time.

Edit: also "a pease" -> "peas" -> "a pea"

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Also literally... If can both mean exactly something or be used for emphasis