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. I would consider this exercise damagingly prescriptive; most are neither uniquely Filipino nor wrong. However (and my comments refer to AmE/BrE): 1. Free subscription of... (Free subscription to…) - prepo issue-- AmE/BrE uses the collocation subscribe to. 2. Can I speak with…? (May I speak...

Has anyone heard about Filipinisms/Filipinoism? Hi guys. In the call center industry, it refers to terms/phrases used by Filipinos in speaking and in writing (sometimes). They gave me a list with corrections and assigned me to send one Filipinism with corrections weekly. However, in my...

CalifJim wrote: The writer has painted himself into a corner, grammatically speaking! He has open to sounding different and willing to sound different . And he wants to combine them into one expression without repeating the idea of sounding different. Either to sounding or to sound would...