x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agoPeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?message-squaremessage-square144fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down148file-text
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squarePeople who started learning a second language, how has it made you aware how broken English is ?x4740N@lemm.ee to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-215 days agomessage-square144fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareextrangerius@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·13 days agoPhrasal verbs can often feel weird and arbitrary. Many of them are more or less intuitive: Put down Put in Put on But then there’s: Put up (with) Put out Put off Putting out the fire is pretty strange taken literally. Out where? The fact that they’re the exact opposites of the above doesn’t help.
Phrasal verbs can often feel weird and arbitrary.
Many of them are more or less intuitive:
But then there’s:
Putting out the fire is pretty strange taken literally. Out where?
The fact that they’re the exact opposites of the above doesn’t help.