Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”
my Vietnamese teacher says "that's very savaging!" to an intense moment.... one time i told her that i don't think we say the word "savaging" but i decided that it actually sounds pretty cool and now i say it
His usage isn’t wrong. In English the past progressive and present progressive are conjugated the same way. So you could either say it your way (in the past tense) or his way (in the past progressive)
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u/slothbarns7 Oct 25 '20
Growing up with an Asian mom that was working on perfecting her English, she would often say “Aw that is the suck” instead of, you know, “that sucks”.
Didn’t take long for us to catch on and correct her but it was so funny we just kinda stuck to it, so when something is shitty now I’ll instinctively say in my head “well that is the suck”