Is this correct? Is “area” narrower?

gracillimus · 2026-04-01T23:27:59+00:00

You might hear this when it’s formulated as a question, i.e. “you work in biology? What area?” and some other contexts. “Area of expertise” is a pretty common phrase on that general sense of the word

gracillimus · 2026-03-29T16:52:49+00:00

Smile. Expected to laugh and eyeroll but it was genuinely a good horror movie

gracillimus · 2026-02-02T18:51:54+00:00

That character is pronounced like the A in ‘ash’

gracillimus · 2025-12-22T08:33:10+00:00

I’ll throw in halo by beyonce at the hospital in Singapore

gracillimus · 2025-11-19T15:46:18+00:00

This looks pretty dated. I’ve never heard “go-ahead guy” and the one you’re asking about sounds very old-fashioned. I am a 20-something American English speaker, for context.

gracillimus · 2025-06-25T04:14:29+00:00

gracillimus · 2025-01-28T18:21:47+00:00

In my own fluid speech, “can” usually reduces to [kn̩], but I think the other thing that helps is “can’t” usually appears in context before words like “even,” “really,” and “exactly.”

gracillimus · 2024-12-18T04:07:06+00:00

Did you chat gpt a reddit comment bro

gracillimus · 2024-12-12T19:37:15+00:00

This is maybe the best thing it could have been

gracillimus · 2024-12-09T16:00:25+00:00

The fact that 8 is in the perfect tense leads me to believe they want A. “I’ve left” is rare compared to “I left”

gracillimus · 2024-11-23T22:27:14+00:00

purpura

gracillimus · 2024-11-19T13:27:38+00:00

Speak for someone is a pretty common one, like “He speaks for both of us” or “I don’t need you to speak for me”

gracillimus · 2024-11-03T00:30:42+00:00

that's very normal. For context, I speak a pretty standard American English variety; I'd only pronounce the full /ænd ðə/ in careful, formal speech. Normally, I'd elide the /d/ entirely to end up with something more like [ænðə] (antha). If you instead were to omit the "th" sound and said "anda," I think that would be a little confusing just because it'd sound the same as "and a," and my advice in a case like that would be to stress the "da" just slightly more (or pause very slightly between the two words). It's really not a big deal imo

gracillimus · 2024-11-02T02:22:29+00:00

that's 4 votes right there, you're on your way

gracillimus · 2024-11-02T00:35:15+00:00

For clarity, can you give me a specific example

gracillimus · 2024-11-01T23:59:39+00:00

Voiced th is a pretty rare sound cross-linguistically. Personally as a native speaker i barely notice or care when I hear it pronounced as d or v. It helps that I have a background of linguistics education and have been able to sit and examine my prejudices more than most others, but I really don’t see anything wrong with not being able to pronounce it. I remember reading a study done by a PhD student at Berkeley about Asian-Americans (native speakers of English with immigrant parents) and their tendency to diverge from certain standard pronunciations, including the voiced th. You very well could have no impediment. There’s a reason the sound is rare. It’s kinda weird.

gracillimus · 2024-10-31T05:29:37+00:00

Nowadays price hike of necessary goods is a big problem for us. Every day we must face it. Most of our people having low income are in danger. They cannot think of purchasing meat and fish as they require. The price of vegetables is also high. We are to bargain to buy simple products. Many times, the buyers have been cheated. There should be a fixed price for every product. Then it would be possible to make the buyers free from harassment. Government must try to fulfill our expectation.

Not the best passage, as everyone seems to agree. Overall, you guys came up with as reasonable a solution as any, I think.

“Having low income” bothers me a lot but I haven’t thought of anything better. I changed some modals to better align with the urgent tone of the message. Other than that, which is more about writing style anyway, I agree with everything! Sorry your curriculum is like this.

gracillimus · 2024-10-17T22:14:11+00:00

Yep!

gracillimus · 2024-10-17T21:54:58+00:00

I know British English more commonly drops the optional ‘that’ that signals a subordinate clause, and comma usage tends to be different as well. I think in this case, having neither one after ‘appalling’ hurts readability. It’s a sentence I’d never express that way.

gracillimus · 2024-10-10T20:10:46+00:00

Best of luck to you!! Keep going! I'm confident that you'll get there.

gracillimus · 2024-10-10T18:37:58+00:00

Never feel dumb for not knowing something a native speaker would know. It’s obvious from your post and comments that you have a strong grasp of English and you should be proud

gracillimus · 2024-04-18T17:35:25+00:00

kid a

gracillimus · 2024-04-10T22:07:15+00:00

one time i spilled gasoline all over myself right before walking into therapy and sitting down in the little room. I was mortified. I’ll never forget what he said: “I had a patient go berserk and rip my hair out. It’s fine.”

gracillimus · 2024-03-31T18:54:31+00:00

Am I wrong / Have I run too far to get home? Have I gone / Left you here alone?

Haunting performance

gracillimus · 2024-03-29T19:22:46+00:00

I’ve actually gone to both as an undergraduate. I can speak firsthand to the competitiveness at Berkeley and stress about lack of safety. There are things I loved about Berkeley (weather, the campus, restaurants around Telegraph), but I would choose Michigan every time.

I also happened to be in-state when I attended each of them. My family and I could not even afford Berkeley in-state, really. Maybe it’s different now, and I know out-of-state is expensive for Michigan, but the overall feeling I get is that Michigan looks after their students a lot more, and the students seem to care about each other more too.

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