NoneOfUrBusiness

TIL… All of this.

Isn’t this in European terms? Europe as a whole is extremely good at English compared to the rest of the world.

Why so? Remember that Lebanon’s preferred second language is French, not English.

as all the usual sounds are represented within our phonology

Is what you’d think, but nope. Their r, sh, j, ch and w and u sounds are slightly different from English (enough so that some languages have the English version and the Japanese version as independent sounds), the lone n consonant has a pronunciation not existent in English, and Japanese has a tone system but it’s simple enough a foreigner can get by without knowing it. That is to say, Japanese pronunciation is very different from English and decently hard to master, but if you just pronounce it like you would English (without stress of course, absolutely don’t add stress) you shouldn’t have a problem getting your point across.

Russian and Arabic consonant clusters

Wait Arabic consonant clusters? If anything Arabic has less consonant clusters than English. As a native Arabic speaker what I would think is a problem for English natives is the consonants themselves, because we have a lot of them and many don’t exist in English.

I mean maybe but now Republicans have a majority. Still not “democrats performing well”.

I don’t know if the author is coping or if they actually believe this.

Despite his win, Democrats performed unexpectedly well in down-ballot races, flipping Senate seats in swing states Trump carried and maintaining the House balance.

Uh… They lost the Senate what the fuck is this guy even talking about?

That’s a very idealistic position. English is either useful or necessary in many situations and fields, and having a population that doesn’t know English can and will cause problems. How well people in a country speak English is an important metric for that country’s development, otherwise nobody would care about it.

“The claim that Israel agreed to end the war before achieving all its goals is a total lie”

Uh… Yeah. I don’t think I need to say anything else.

Because Israel didn’t seriously engage with Hamas to free the hostages. It was pretty clear when Israel learned of the resolution and reaffirmed their goal to destroy Hamas instead of saying literally anything about a ceasefire.

That is a valid position if you intend to use that time to make it so that children don’t need to burn every election.

Okay and? Doesn’t change his attitude towards ceasefire negotiations. In other words, if you wanted a ceasefire resolution that demands returning the hostages at the same time as the ceasefire we had one in June and it predictably went nowhere.

Probably because Israel has never been serious about negotiations to free the hostages. It’s their excuse to continue their genocide, after all.

Her team wanted to change the circumstances of the show too much and wouldn’t come to him.

Can you explain this in more detail (or link something that talks about it)?

As someone whose only information about the man is secondhand, what does he even talk about?

I mean literally yes it’s how Biden won in 2020.

I barely started reading and i hate this already.

Okay you got me there. Also for what it’s worth, gendered nouns are hard even when you natively speak a language with gendered nouns. Source: Am an Arabic speaker and will Jihad anyone who says a chair is female.

Okay TIL that these aren’t pronounced the same.

I don’t know shit about fuck when it comes to the differences between accents/dialects but it’s at least enough of a thing to be there in dictionaries.

Okay as a non-native speaker who struggles with consonant clusters this is both the best and worst thing I learned today.