ESLs,i think you should read this wikipedia page, you'll learn a lot and your posts will be more interesting to read.
you think you're gonna teach me what an idiomatic expression is?
>kick the bucket In Russia we say "push the vessel"
>>217640928hello may nambre is jose i from mexico and i like mucho las amburges and jotdogos
>kick the bucketIn the People's Republic of New India we say "punt the cunt"
i would rather not
Let's beat around the bush and not do it
>>217640928i wonder if EFLs even know what gerunds, auxiliary verbs, past perfect participles, non-finite clauses, etc are.I know they can speak/write their language better than me, but do they actually KNOW it?
>>217642669No native speaker in any language cares about their own grammar system unless you're a linguist or grammarian.
>>217640928you're not the authority on the English language anymore, nor is England, nor are Afroamericans, nor is anyone. it's a globohomo language. get with the times, grandpa
an idiom for castration in my country is to pull someones cock out like a radish from the ground
>>217640928Indoeuropeans dont really need this, many figures of speech overlap. Usually people like the chinese who try to learn 1-3 different IE languages like french-english-spanish realize very soon how similar they are, more than what a european would
>>217640928as an autist I really hate all idioms
>>217643943Oh so I'm weird for caring if my table is male or female?
>>217644266>indian wants to know if his table is female so he can rape it
English has the stupidest idioms.>Get out of hand>Pull someone's leg>Under the weather>Cut somebody some slack>Play it by ear>Break the iceMany of these mean opposite of what they do literally.
>>217644327>implying i care about thatSay amreki, what are you doing later :)
>>217644390>English has the stupidest idiomsguess the cat's out of the bag now
>>217644390english idioms are a diamond dozen
>>217640928no, I typed what I want. I'm not catering huewhaito
>>217641021We say pull the sock, it always makes me laugh
>>217640928>reading wikipediacouldn't be me
>>217644592Bon apple teeth
>>217644390All languages do. Spanish is full of them as well. You are not special.
>>217640928I see. Are "fr fr" and "no cap" idioms?
>>217640928What an interesting thing!English is such a magical language having all those strange quirks.
