Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024)
by ninalanyon on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:20PM
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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.
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Re:Can You Lose Your Native Tongue? (2024)
by OJFord on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:57PM
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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.