Polyglot Journey (Miguel)

@jegaevi It has to be from northern US if they are calling it "pop".

I want to see something. Would you buy this drink based on the packaging? Poll in the comments ⏬

@uncannyscience The number of people in the UK is larger than the number who attend Oxford. So, at this point, I am going to say no.

Does every British person go to oxford?

@ooomuller I rarely hear that word in the US these days. More common are euphemistic terms like "meat packing plant". However we do still use the term "manslaughter", which is a legal term that means something like "unintentionally killing someone due to recklessness, etc."

屠殺場て今は使っちゃいけない言葉なんだ？？じゃあ今の屠殺場はなんて呼ばれてるんだろ……

@enchantedflms My English colleague in the US really liked this one.

@enchantedflms What is the difference between grey and gray? Grey is a colour, while gray is a color.

why do american ppl use “color” instead of “colour” like what is the point im genuinely curious 🥹

"Discussion" to me implies focusing on a topic with some goal in mind, aiming at some resolution. "Conversation" means people are talking with one another. Am I from another planet on this one?

It's interesting to me that the word "conversation" has taken over a lot of contexts where "discussion" used to appear. "Discussion" doesn't mean "have an argument" like some Romance cognates may imply, at least in the US. Is the verb "discuss" a scary monster to some?

@minnano_dougaww Someone needs a pay raise right now.

すげぇぇぇぇぇぇぇ

@Aki1650 @Iaklsydney If I ever get to China, I will want to see everything.

@Iaklsydney 作为中国人,我很好奇外国人更希望看到的是比较刻板印象的传统中国城镇,还是更现实一些的中国城市

La 2.0 de NTE si o si será en china y no es solo porque si. >Los juegos gachas siempre al tener una versión en china son financiados por el gobierno chino. >Sucedio en todos los juegos de hoyoverse y ahora en wuling en arknights endfield >Honestamente mientras no lo hagan tan aburrido como en zzz para mí esta bien >Ojalá sea una China futurista y cyberpunk al estilo de NTE, y no se vayan a lo tradicional lento de cultura antigua. #Nevernesstoeverness #NTE #Ntecreator

Another = an + other. "A whole other" is correct. However, in the US you will still sometimes hear "a whole nother", since some still want that "n" to be there. Do you hear this in the UK and other places as well?

@worldwide_yuya By default you can, unless there is a No Turn on Red sign.

さっき知ったんだけど… アメリカでは赤信号でも右折可能なの！？

@jegaevi Some of my favorites: Běi jīng, bèi jǐng, Shàng hǎi, shāng hài, lián xì, liàn xí....

Chinese stop confusing me with words that are almost the same challange

@KONGULOARSTEINN Bjork

Without googling, name an Icelandic person

@LipstickMystic2 @John_Barach I think it all seems to boil down to the cultural divide between those who have never read books, those who haven't since high school, and those who still do.

@PolyglotZone @John_Barach We are kindred linguistic spirits, Polyglot! I also hate the weird newer use of “casted.” I was a pro theater actress and we were never “casted” in a part. We were cast. It was a direct thing. Somebody chose to hire us. We were CAST. End rant!

In American English, the phrase is "different from"; in British English, it is often "different to" -- but what sense does that make? Even in British English, you don't say "X differs to Y"; you say "X differs from Y."

@LipstickMystic2 @John_Barach I am on the same page with this one as well. Here is another one: when people want to express agreement by saying "agree" as opposed to "agreed". "Agree" sounds like the command "Agree!", as in "Agree with me!" How hard is it for people to type an extra letter?

@LipstickMystic2 @John_Barach I am from the US and I hate it too. This is the result of people reading less books, in my view. The only way this would be correct: If I were officiating a graduation ceremony, and my school walked up to the podium and I handed it a diploma. Then I could say I graduated it.

@John_Barach Pet peeve; in the US people randomly started “graduating high school or college” when in my day, you would graduate FROM things. Just wanna scream at these “graduates” and say, “Go back to class until you learn to speak properly!”

@KONGULOARSTEINN Jimmy Carter. Just joking ... Most will say Mr. Djugashvili of course.

Without googling, name a Georgian person

@p_ribon_p When I was a kid in the US, the X word would have been Xylophone. I think it's a mistake to have kids memorize proper nouns like this when they are starting with English, but that's just my opinion.

娘の英語の宿題。 Xの答えがわかりません。 分かる人いませんか？？？？？😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@tuuu28283 I am learning Japanese right now. I know there are many layers of formality, and that I don't understand them well yet. For that reason I am only going to use only the polite forms of Japanese until I reach at least B1 level. Why? Because I don't know the culture well enough yet

@tuuu28283 You would be safest to just use "yes". The variations that you noted take a long time and personal experience in many contexts to get right. I would consider this a C2 question, or something critical for those living and/or working in a native English environment.

アメリカの兄弟達 日本人なんであんまりわかってないんだけど 英語のyesとyupは意味ってほとんど一緒？？

@tuuu28283 Never underestimate how irritating it is for native speakers when slang, non-standard or colloquial terms are misused. The goal is to sound fluent but it has the opposite impact. I am accepting of all these mistakes because I make them in all my target lang. Just be aware.