As an ESL fan of the English language the following features of the English language are too hard for me:>on at in>through thorough trough though >your you're yours
>>223460593not my problem
You want a medal?
>>223460593ThroughThrough-outTroughtYourYou'areYoursIts not that hard
whither, hither, thither
>>223460593“Trough” never comes up except with respect to farming, just forget about that one
>>223460593Read being pronounced reed or red depending on context is the ultimate ESL killer
>>223460593I probably know more about the English language than most ameriniggers on this site, and so do you.The amount of 'could of's alone makes me wanna barf.
>>223460593As and Ass
>>223461416why yes I would love to receive a medal
>>223465199Medal of the ape
>>223460593>Mfw when an ESL says "20 minutes break">Mfw an ESL says "How it looks like"
I have to admit "at" is the stupidest preposition in the English language. It's described as being exact and specific but it's actually not.It may be exact when it's used in terms of time, but when it's used in terms of spatial relation, it could mean you're just vaguely next to something.For example the sentence "I stopped at a stop sign".In this case "at" can't refer to an specific location because "a stop sign" isn't a location. You could stop in front of the stop sign, or vaguely in the same area as the stop sign, which are valid locations but are not specific.If we interpret "at" as temporal, then it implies you were moving and you stopped at some specific moment. At would be specific in this case, but then it means the moment was "a stop sign" which makes no sense.Not to mention how black people use "at" and all the other extra bullshit.
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>>223465846Yeah but context matters “at a stop sign” would imply an intersection which is a location.
>>223460593In means enclosed within or a part ofYour limbs are on your torso while your organs are in your torso. At refers to something in reference to is location relative to somewhere elseIf I am at the store I am also in the store, but only once I go inside. Being at the store means being within eyesight generally, near would be further away. To be on the store I would have to climb on top of the store. Hence when an ESL posts Trinity on a bike with the caption "get in" it's funny because Trinity is inviting you to get in but it's a bike, therefore she is saying get in my pussy by default because it's the thing present that you can be inside
>>223465846You just lack the ability to infer practical abstracts from object descriptors. No one would reasonably expect someone to perch on a stop sign and saying "I'm near the stop sign" would be stupidYou could say "I'm behind the stop sign" if you want to waste a syllable
>>223460593Only EFLs have issues with these.
>>223460593I respect your doubts, but this >your you're yours is just idiotI thought confounding your and you're was a thing only to dumb native speakers, and think of yours as your's
>>223465627>20 minutes breakI read this in an Indian accent.ESLs better watch out because I may read your entire post in an outrageous accent that may or may not be your own.
>>223466094Do Indians make this mistake? I associate both with Euros
>>223465911but then there are bizarre unpredictable exceptions like being ON a plane EVEN THOUGH you are INside the plane
>>223466171Euros wouldn't need to talk about working
>>223466271>She's in labor>He's on fire>She's at a lossKek, so glad I didn't have to learn this dumbass language. Not my problem.
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>>223466271You get ON things that you ride. You can ride a plane, ride a bike, ride a bus, ride a train, ride a horse; so you can be on a plane, on a bike, on a bus, on a train, on a horse, etc. You can't ride a car so you can't be on a car. But you can take a car for a ride :^)
>>223466577>you can take a car for a rideIncorrect. It would still be taking it for a drive in this case.
