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Jasper Loy

04:56

@snailboat I don't understand this learning joke, if that was meant to be a joke.

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Tasneem Zh

08:48

A quick question (which can't be posted as a complete question) What do I refer to "Kind of"? I know it is not a phrase, word, or thing. So, is it a term?

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ColleenV

09:55

@TasneemZh I might use "expression".

ColleenV

10:46

Daily idiom: "the toothpaste is out of the tube" or "you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube". We should be careful what we post online. Once it's out there, the toothpaste is out of the tube and we'll have to live with the consequences.

Also, this is a fun list of idioms that are difficult to translate into English: 40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally

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11:54

Q: Contributor's Guide to English Language Learners

I thought it would be nice if we had a community maintained guide to ELL written in easy to understand language and arranged to make the most important things to know easy to find. The help center has a lot of information and we should definitely refer to it, but often the language is difficult t...

Anonymous

12:10

@JasperLoy It was actually a leaning joke, not a learning joke, but it looks like I typed the wrong word.

Anonymous

That reminds me of this comic:

Anonymous

Anonymous

Interesting use of the perfect in panel two. I would have said I thought instead of I'd thought.

Jasper Loy

@snailboat I tend to say 'I rather do this' but it should be 'I would rather do this', I think.

userr2684291

12:49

Look at those greedy, indecorous quotation marks at the very end – simply barbaric.

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13:16

Q: Difference between "across" and "through"

walk across the tunnel walk through the tunnel Which one is correct? Can anyone explain me the exact difference between the through and across? I am really confused with these 2 prepositions.