Timeline for Do native English speakers notice when non-native speakers skip the word "the" in sentences?
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| Dec 21, 2020 at 3:50 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @axsvl77 - I think you twisted that the wrong way. | |
| Dec 13, 2020 at 5:28 | comment | added | Astor Florida | @HotLicks Varies a lot, in my experience. Some people get into it an make sure they can read and right. Others loose interest. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 23:03 | comment | added | Hot Licks | @axsvl77 - What about their axle language? | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 23:02 | comment | added | Hot Licks | "We need to take car to repair garage" would be unexceptional in a text message. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 1:03 | comment | added | Astor Florida | @DKNguyen For example, second generation Latinos in New York and New England speak differently than the White Midwestern English they learned in school. Their use of English is really fun, honestly. Then, when they need to call the credit card company, their spoke language changes drastically. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 0:54 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @axsvl77 That is not something I am familiar with as I am Canadian, but from what I hear, people in Newfoundland might do something similar. | |
| Dec 12, 2020 at 0:52 | comment | added | Astor Florida | Even more, it might be helpful to mention that in the US, different cultural groups at times will identify themselves by how they use articles. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 19:46 | history | edited | DKNguyen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 19:36 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @user253751 I would put that in the same class as succinct military telegram | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 18:40 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @PeterMortensen I find it very unlikely that more than 90% of non-native English speakers omit articles. Perhaps you only notice non-native speakers which omit articles? (Fun fact: This comment contains no articles) | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 18:38 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | @DKNguyen Newspaper headlines often omit articles (this is not a pun). english.stackexchange.com/questions/198869/… | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 18:17 | comment | added | Peter Mortensen | I don't think those non-native speakers choose to omit articles. They simply don't know any better. Why that is so is the more interesting question. Especially as the majority can't get it right (more than 90%). | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 16:09 | history | edited | DKNguyen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 15:16 | comment | added | Barmar | @DKNguyen Or like the old "Me Tarzan, you Jane" trope. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 15:13 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @Barmar Meaning if you type like that all the time, although people won't think you are a non-native speaker they will think you are a caveman. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:57 | comment | added | Barmar | @DarthPseudonym Good example. The first one sounds like someone pretending to talk like an infant -- helper words are learned relatively late. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:40 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @DarthPseudonym A native speaker would put even less effort into it and say: "need to take car to repair garage". The non-native phrasing has too much effort put into it for omissions to come off as just laziness, whereas the native phrasing comes off as someone just speaking like a succinct military telegram or morse code message. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:39 | comment | added | Darth Pseudonym | @DKNguyen Excellent point. There's a huge difference between one of my friends online writing "Okay I go bed now", which reads as a joke, and somebody saying "We need to take car to repair garage", which instantly reads as a non-native speaker. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 14:19 | comment | added | DKNguyen | @Oddthinking Non-native speakers don't omit words like "the" and if they do omit words it is always different words than non-native speakers almost to the point you don't notice. Native speakers are more likely to mash words together than omit them, I think. | |
| Dec 11, 2020 at 0:51 | history | edited | Eddie Kal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 11, 2020 at 0:39 | history | answered | DKNguyen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |