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AlienEDM

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American native speaker with perfect English...isn't that an oxymoron? lol
As far as I known, the perfect english language is from England, where the english is original. The english from United States is kind of generic adaptation, since it has a lot of mix ethnic. But, how the american english is universal language this days(just like greek language was before), everybody look for North American guys to perfect their works.
 

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Why L&P does not use the translation features of Renpy, he could provide to people he trusts, the DE to EN script generated. I am sure that many will hurry to translate :geek:. A lot of tools do a remarkable job, moreover I'm not sure everyone is comfortable with us slang :unsure:. In action, you will look for your dictionary ? :LOL:
To split a hair, I don't think the big problem is "slang" it's more the structure of the prose. The prose has been getting worse, but it was really noticeable in the last update. As a native English speaker, there were many examples of words in the wrong order, or inappropriate usage, or outdated usage. Very little of it was technically incorrect, but they were clearly decisions that a non-native speaker would make. So I don't think you need to worry about slang that won't make sense, because I think what L&P means is prose- and if that's the case you won't even notice the difference but native English speakers will.
 

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To split a hair, I don't think the big problem is "slang" it's more the structure of the prose. The prose has been getting worse, but it was really noticeable in the last update. As a native English speaker, there were many examples of words in the wrong order, or inappropriate usage, or outdated usage. Very little of it was technically incorrect, but they were clearly decisions that a non-native speaker would make. So I don't think you need to worry about slang that won't make sense, because I think what L&P means is prose- and if that's the case you won't even notice the difference but native English speakers will.
I would say it's both depending on the conversation. Thankfully the majority of the conversations can be got away with as there is little American slang/changed words being used. When I was moving to the States there were times I may as well have been moving to Timbuktoo, the difference in real everyday language really is that different at times.

I do however completely agree on phrases and useage of certain words and prose that no native 'English' speaker ever uses/says.
 

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I would say it's both depending on the conversation. Thankfully the majority of the conversations can be got away with as there is little American slang/changed words being used. When I was moving to the States there were times I may as well have been moving to Timbuktoo, the difference in real everyday language really is that different at times.

I do however completely agree on phrases and useage of certain words and prose that no native 'English' speaker ever uses/says.
I think slang is one of those things that you really don't notice until it comes up and turns out to be different. For example, until I looked into it at the time, I didn't realise that "take a squiz" was Australian slang.
 
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For example, I will never write "I do however completely agree" because I am not native English speaker, so "I do however completely agree" is disturbing for me, but certainly very fluent. I learned standard sentence turns at school and English is not even my main foreign language. That's why, I will simply write "However, I completely agree on...", maybe I lose in realism.
And yet, over here, responding with "Fuckin' oath!" is understood to mean pretty much the same thing, even if the words themselves have a different meaning.

And now I'm wondering what a "'Strayan" version of AWAM would look like.
 
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