ESL trauma-bonding thread>he didn't realise "cranes" are called cranes because they look like bird cranes>he only knew about cranes from watching origami videos on Youtube
>Kroon
the a in diamond is silentbut not always.
"microwave" means microwave oven
Not an ESL but>sloughis pronounced "sloff" (rhymes with cough) and not rhymes with sow.I'm 38 and I learned this in the last 5 years
>>220250505I don't belong itt because I'm an ETL.
>>220253491name the 19 languages you learned before English
>>220253463Wait till you learn about "worcestershire". >>220253352Yeah that's a tough one. I think it really just comes down to preference there. When some people pronounce diamond you can sometimes hear a little hint of the "a". I have no idea why it's like this. It's perfectly acceptable in all circumstances though to ignore it and say di-mond though
>>220253536Swedish, Finnish.
As a passenger you ride a car, bus, train, motorcycle, boat, bicycle basically everything except for a planeAnd you drive a car, taxi, bus. But you operate a train, or sail a boat. And both people ride the motorcycle or fly the plane
>>220253463Its Slow as in Ow from ouch
All this studying and all of you still sound like ESL Lmao
>>220253751Be honest. Lots of native speakers sound like shit and can't spell to save their lives anyway. Learning English from a language that has nothing to do with German or latin is tough.
>>220253463Learned it now. Always read it as "sloe off" and stuff in my head.
>>220250505Half the words in the English vocabulary is french
>>220253599You can also go for a plane ride but that's only when talking about small planes.
>>220253463I'm 34 and I only realised that it's spelled "minuscule" and not "miniscule" last year.Does it happen in your language?
>>220253463except for the city of Slough in england, which does rhyme with sow
>>220255348That makes zero sense.
>>220258156minuscule comes from latin minus, not miniare
>>220253463This >>220257074 was confusing the shit out of me. What "slough" are you talking about? What does it mean?
>>220258410https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloughhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sloughi also used to live by a swamp called Red Bug Slough, which rhymed with shoe
my favorite are words that are distinguished only by stress. for example the verb CONtract, meaning to hire a contractor, and the verb conTRACT, meaning to shrink
I learned that "ea" and "i" (as in "it") are different sounds like a few years ago, at 30 or so. I had internalized it from exposure, but I didn't actually know it. It's not something we learn. This is why the french say "eet eez" like they do.
>>220255348need a ten sixty six repeat to salvage the isles damn
>>220258984J’ai appris que le verbe «exciter» est utilisé dans le contexte de sexe ou de l’orgasme. Je déteste d’être un FLS.
>>220258156like mini skirt
>>220255348Don't worry, only recently did I realise there's an 'r' after 'u' in surprise.
crane in French also comes from the bird, I wonder who copied on the other
>>220250505Is crane bird and crane machine different words in Norwegian? They are both the same in Czech as well
>>220255348I know plenty of native speaking retards that type bullshit like "millenial" and "payed"
>>220259072That set us back thousands of years unironically, the Normans were the niggers of Europe
>>220258984we call them short vowels and long vowels
My favorite work is probably eke because you know it, you've said it, you've used it, but you probably have never had to write it down.
>>2202539101. Old Frankish was a Germanic tongue that was mutually intelligible with Old English2. England is the spiritual home of the French language
>>220255348I intentially spell animal flipping the n and m when I'm on the interwebs to get people riled up about typos.It's subtle, but it's genious.
>>220255348>minuscule not minisculeI just learned this right now.
