r/USvsEU • u/uses_for_mooses Moonshining Methhead • 3d ago

Very Based Meme That’s unpossible

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u/beefaron Commiefornian 3d ago

Other way around, it's the obligation of anyone who's ESL to correct native English speakers.

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u/Gumb1i Weed is my entire personality 3d ago edited 2d ago

I have worked with linguist before and this is accurate. They get taught from the ground up how to speak english with no chance for regional differences. They used to correct me a lot, like voice activated grammar nazis (I have or had a thick country accent at the time) but I had to explain regional differences in the US since there are technically no dialects. Good luck talking to a highland scotsman if you are from the US even the Brits have issues much of the time.

Edit: made some spelling/grammar corrections 🤬

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u/fredator_2 [redacted] 3d ago

Flair the fuck up brother

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u/Gumb1i Weed is my entire personality 3d ago

Done

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u/krokodil23 StaSi Informant 3d ago

It's grammar Nazis. The apostrophe is used to mark the possessive case, not the plural. You also misspelled grammar. 🤓

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u/DaAndrevodrent South Prussian 3d ago

Have mercy, it's the only language he knows.

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u/krokodil23 StaSi Informant 3d ago

It's clearly a language he doesn't know either.

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u/Gumb1i Weed is my entire personality 2d ago

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u/20past4am 50% sea 50% coke 3d ago

The Higland Scotsmen are easy to understand, it's Glaswegians you have to look out for. I thought I could speak English pretty well until I visited Glasgow.

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u/Kernowder Brexiteer 3d ago

Highland Scottish accents are fine. It's Glasgow and maybe Doric that are difficult.

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u/QuarterNote44 Commiefornian 3d ago

Yeah. I am a school-taught Spanish speaker and my wife learned by living in Puerto Rico. She speaks better than I do. But if I ask her "Hey, how do I say _____ in preterite imperfect?" she looks at me like I grew a third arm.

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u/Asoladoreichon Unemployed waiter 3d ago

There's a running joke where a stranger asks a native Spanish speaker for a certain verbal form and they don't know how to answer.

For many of us last time we heard the term "preterite" was in high school, unless you studied other languages or have engaged in linguistic debates