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Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by eps on Saturday February 22, 2025 @04:51AM (#43137610)
Similarly "I've been here since two days" is usually a giveaway that somebody's translating from French.
Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by raphael_l on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:03AM (#43137663)
It’s actually also indicative of German! (and I would assume a few other languages?)

“Ich bin seit zwei Tagen hier.”

Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by OJFord on Saturday February 22, 2025 @07:48AM (#43138543)
Hindi too, maiñ do din se yahāñ hūñ.

I wouldn't be surprised if it were most languages really, English 'for' seems the weirder construction.

Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by ninalanyon on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:20PM (#43140913)
You could use it in English too so long as you add 'ago' on the end. "Since two days" makes no sense in English because "since" refers to a point in time not a duration.
Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by OJFord on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:57PM (#43142568)
That still doesn't sound natural to me. You could answer 'since when' with 'two days ago', but declaring it as a statement I'd say 'for the last two days' or 'since the day before yesterday'.

You could get away with it in speech since it sounds like 'since.. [thinking] two days ago' and it's acceptable to change construction like that in casual speech, but written it doesn't seem right to me.

Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by selimthegrim on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:42PM (#43144030)
Could also be do din tak but that implies you’re about to take off
Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by dizhn on Saturday February 22, 2025 @08:20AM (#43138758)
Do you notice an increase in this usage lately? I see it a lot on reddit and hn. All romance languages probably have it by the way. I know Italian does for sure.
Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024) by stavros on Saturday February 22, 2025 @05:03AM (#43137657)
Isn't German the same? "Ich bin schon seit zwei Tagen hier".