Ren'Py Completed Corruption [Final] [Mr.C]

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Blorgh

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origeee said:
More than half in fact. Ceirtainly in Russian speaking countries it is the case. And I know what I'm talking about
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When you don't use English frequently/on a day to day basis, it's very easy to fall into speech patterns where you almost try to translate things "word for word" from your native language to English.

Like, I know a fair bit of Japanese (not fluent, but enough to be able to read basic novels), and more than once have I read something written in English with weird grammar, thought "this sounds like Japanese", and then turned out to be correct, i.e. the writer turned out to indeed be Japanese (something I didn't know beforehand).
 
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Blorgh said:
When you don't use English frequently/on a day to day basis, it's very easy to fall into speech patterns where you almost try to translate things "word for word" from your native language to English.

Like, I know a fair bit of Japanese (not fluent, but enough to be able to read basic novels), and more than once have I read something written in English with weird grammar, thought "this sounds like Japanese", and then turned out to be correct, i.e. the writer turned out to indeed be Japanese (something I didn't know beforehand).
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Yeah. but I mean majority of the world's population don't use English at all. Like during their whole lifetime
 
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Blorgh

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origeee said:
Yeah. but I mean majority of the world's population don't use English at all. Like during their whole lifetime
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I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm reinforcing your point.

Now, there is a case to be made that non-native English speakers who speak English often speak it better than many native English speakers (I'd say I'm one of them).
But that's a selection issue: most non-native English speakers who speak English are people with higher levels of education.
 
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Blorgh said:
I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm reinforcing your point.

Now, there is a case to be made that non-native English speakers who speak English often speak it better than many native English speakers (I'd say I'm one of them).
But that's a selection issue: most non-native English speakers who speak English are people with high levels of education.
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The selection issue you pointed out applies in some regions like in my country. In lots of regions English is used as a lingua franca ( as a communication tool between speakers of different languages ) and in some countries like Netherlands and Scandinavian counties vast majority of population now understands English because of an American cultural domination
 
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