#video #formina #toread on 11 weird #USA #English accents
on 02026-09-19#video of the hardest #English words for Spanish speakers. #formina
on 02026-08-25#Language-Simp #humor #video reviewing #English, pointing out that it’s not a real language, just a bunch of other languages, since 80% of its vocabulary is loanwords. “All of the useless and irrelevant words like ‘anatomy’ and ‘democracy’ come from Greek, while all of the useful and relevant words like ‘loot’, ‘thug’, ‘bandana’, and ‘mogul’, come from Urdu.” Harshly criticizes phrasal verbs. #formina
on 02026-08-24Where and when constructs like “The car needs washed [sic]” are accepted by #English speakers
on 02026-06-03#video showing the #history of #English with a constructed monologue over three minutes as the dialect evolves from 00500 Anglo-Saxon to 02000 non-rhotic New York English (as interpreted by an RP speaker). #phonology
on 02026-01-06another #humor #video on how #English makes less sense than #Chinese
on 02025-11-27#humor #video about how American #English is crazy compared to #Chinese
on 02025-10-01the #English phrase “try and” thoroughly analyzed grammatically
on 02025-08-10Wikipedia article on the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (#LOB) #corpus of modern [British] #English for #NLP
on 02025-07-25more on the Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen (#LOB) #corpus of modern [British] #English for #NLP
on 02025-07-25Lancaster-Oslo-Bergen ("LOB") #corpus of modern [British] #English for #NLP
on 02025-07-25my comment showing examples of the #English #passive-voice used well.
on 02025-07-20#Pullum thoroughly explains the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
on 02025-07-20#Pullum shows that the #English writers who complain most about the #passive-voice, like Orwell and Strunk & White, use it more than average writers
on 02025-07-20Geoff #Pullum recorded a #video series on the #English #passive-voice. #linguistics
on 02025-07-20#humor #video about how #English is illogical with country names #humor
on 02025-04-30more minced oaths in #English
on 02024-12-29a list of minced oaths in #English (for the pious)
on 02024-12-29Use of “y’all” in #English, vs. “youse”, “yinz”, and “you guys”.
on 02024-12-20#video #formina for intermediate #English listening practice, discussing American culture
on 02024-10-20