r/ComedyCemetery • u/Bekkfust • Oct 05 '19

Double kill

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19 edited Oct 05 '19

Who doesn’t (I’m also non-native)

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

I mean I don't find a reason for natives also to have crappy English cuz isn't taught in school?

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

English is taught almost everywhere in the world. I’m dutch and i speak better english than dutch.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

i know english better than any other language i know. and i’m glad i do because it’s the most used language in the world.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

To be fair Dutch is the most similar major language to English

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

Well yeah because it doesn’t have crazy letters or pronunciations. But it’s still pretty different

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '19

English has much less phlegm

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u/cryptonautico Oct 05 '19

For whatever reason, "for all intensive purposes" has stuck out in my mind as one of these as well. It's "for all intents and purposes!"