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As a teacher, my students have difficulty with tenses which don't exist in their language - for example, present perfect. Learning vocab is always a matter of memorising unfortunately, and jokes and colloquialisms are also very difficult. I

In the movie "Once Upon A Time In America", there's ... no difference". (On the other hand, I'm no literary genious.) That screenplay could have used a literary genius. Even a mere literary intellect. Heck, the input of a

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Skitt was all, like: It's a colloquialism not to be used in formal writing. A well-established colloquialism though...slightly more rustic would be "it don't make me no never mind" (where the

Okay, so this one time? In band camp? Skitt was all, like: That last phrase ("it's the same difference") sounds a little ... no difference". (On the other hand, I'm no literary genious.) It's a colloquialism not to be

In the movie "Once Upon A Time In America", there's a scene in the back of a pub in which ... it been said in a Swedish conversation, a nit-picker would pick on it. Would that happen in English as well? It's a colloquialism not

And yeah. It's kind of silly to ask whether something is a good stylistic effect, because, well, pretty much anything can be stylistically useful if you know how to use it. The problem comes when these things are used poorly. For that reason,