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How many of you are non-native English speakers? (lemmy.ml)
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Everyone seems so good at English so I wondered how many people learned it to such proficiency and how many are just natives

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[โ€“] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I feel like non native users are often better at both formulating themselves and spelling, compared to many native speakers

Especially the part where people replace 'have' with 'of'. (Would of instead of would have / would've)

Non native speaker here too btw

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  • [โ€“] [S] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh boy, I got so confused when I was a beginner and some American kid told me "would of" is an alternative to "would have"

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I think the "proper" way to simplify it is would've, which is pronounced the same as 'would of'

    A lot of mistakes have just become incorporated into the language in the past. Maybe 'would of' is just too blatantly wrong for that to ever happen though

    Maybe not really a 'mistake', more of a normal shortening but my personal favorite english-ism is "bye" being descended directly from "god be with you". People just kept collapsing it more and more over time.

    Edit: also "a pease" -> "peas" -> "a pea"

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