Native English is the new Latin. Born French, I'm good in English, but I remarked I had something to learn when I noticed I couldn't understand anyone in that country [1] although they could understand each other and were speaking with the same actual rules.
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by portmanteaufu on Monday March 24, 2014 @10:55AM
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I've also noticed how very common it has become to find questions in the format "How to do [task]?" rather than "How do I do [task]?"
I strongly suspect that this has arisen from Google searching, where people naturally write their queries to complete the sentence "I would like some information about ________."
"How to do [task]?"
I've seen that most often from people of Indian origin. Not so much from Pakastanis though.
Around 5-10 years ago I used to commonly see "I have doubt on how to <XXX>"[1]. I don't see it quite as often now days.
[1] https://www.google.com.au/search?q="I+have+doubt+on+how+to+*...
Excused, but not that you missed the obvious "Most English verbs will have reflexified".
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by Intermernet on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:22PM
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Thanks! Much better :-)
I love this, and it reminds me of Steven Pinker's "The Language Instinct" where he mentions some stats about the most common dialects of English world-wide are not actually in "native" English speaking countries, but in regions in south-east Asia, as well as India and, increasingly, China.
It's highly likely that, in two or three generations, all of the English speaking population of the world will be "reflexifying" their verbs... Please excuse my mangling of my native tongue :-)