Re:American chestnut trees are “technically extinct”
by wruza on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:01AM
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>I overcame my violent aversion to starting sentences with "or" and "and", after all.
This alone interested me in advanced English. Learning via reading all these comments and blog posts, I rarely realize that I'm learning from non-native speakers.
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Re:American chestnut trees are “technically extinct”
by CalRobert on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @08:15AM
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Interestingly non-native speakers will sometimes have a better handle on usages which are declining in English-speaking countries. I understood when to use "whom" much better after studying Wer, Wen, and Wem in German.