The History of English with English with Stephen ✌️ #261
Rock n' Roll English
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What Is the Difference Between Prescription and Defining?
There are some good books which describe the grammar the way it's really used, and not the way some latin academic wanted it to be used. Some of my brazilian students have a problem because they use all these latinate words, and they do sound ovally formal. I remember even quite a few years ago, seeing the word lament, which means to complain, obviously. And i was i rit o, that must mean complain, because that’s what it means in italian. E, and i sot so many of these. When they they when they use a latinate word instead of an anglo, saxon, word a thattthey,
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