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4585It's a quantum mechanical effect. Everything goes back to quantum mechanics.DMaA-3/25/2021
4584Did you see the video that one linked to? The Zipf Mystery [youtube video] youtTimF-3/25/2021
4583Can you think of the one most annoying thing that bugs you about English?DMaA-3/25/2021
4582Difficult to "lean"? Yes, especially when others are poor editors of Valuepro-3/25/2021
4581And by all appearances you are more skilled at its use than most of us native spValuepro-3/25/2021
4580I started learning English many years ago. I remember every time I found new EngASVPRock23/25/2021
4579Really fun video, thank you. My theory why the irregular verbs are high in freqASVPRock-3/25/2021
4578How Many Languages Are There? [youtube video] youtube.comTimF-3/22/2021
4577The French CAN'T write limericks. Huh!DMaA-3/22/2021
4576Why Shakespeare Could Never Have Been French [youtube video] youtube.comTimF-3/22/2021
4575If anyone ever doubts the importance of pausing between two unrelated sentences,TimF23/16/2021
4574What does "6 times colder" mean [youtube video] youtube.comTimF-2/1/2021
4573Bare infinitives I don't ever remember learning about a different kind of iStan11/27/2021
4572Spotted dogs or Seen canines Gray were the five young dogs, seen playing all ovGraystone-11/4/2020
4571as does "five playful young spotted dogs". My ear prefers the 'yoStan-11/3/2020
4570The example at the link - The spotted young playful five dogs ran and jumped allTimF-11/3/2020
4569"Don't learn a language, acquire it." The idea is taken from how kStan211/3/2020
4568Isn't it curious that native English speakers have an intuitive understandinValuepro-11/3/2020
4567(Don't try this at your local donut store) "I'd like glazed, largeStan-11/2/2020
4566When to use "into" and when to use "in to." wordgenius.comStan110/29/2020
4565VP, you've got that right! I don't understand why American music is fillStan110/29/2020
4564I made the mistake of trying to listen to this before reading the explanation. TValuepro110/25/2020
4563Adriano Celentano - Prisencolinensinainciusol [youtube video] youtube.com The sTimF110/25/2020
4562And the man who married your father's sister (making him and uncle) could haValuepro-10/2/2020
4561Seems to me there should be a way in English to distinguish between your father&DMaA-10/2/2020
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