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CalifJim wrote: I read somewhere that Mario Pei, the linguist, tried to learn a different language every year. He supposedly claimed that Vietnamese was the most difficult. CJ I disagree with the linguist Mario Pei not because I am a Vietnamese. It is because I have...

Alienvoord, I appreciate you're constructive criticism. Allow me to rebute: 1) Comprehensible, yes. But many expressions are comprehensible even without being gramatically sound. The nuances I try to reveal in this post are to help you write better gramatically, not to sound or to write...

The distinction between phonetics and phonology has a number of implications beyond simply establishing that distinction. Consider 1) an L2 English speaker who can pronounce isolated words of English in native-like fashion, but who does not sound native in conversation; 2) the organization of...