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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€“] [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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