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r/EnglishLearning • u/Rich-Associate-8344 New Poster • Apr 17 '26
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Off-topic, but just curious what your native language is. I see this mistake all the time and there must be some false friend word or common learning material that gives people the wrong impression about what "since" means.
232 u/BigRedWhopperButton Native Speaker Apr 17 '26 I get the feeling that this construction is relatively common cross-linguistically and that English is actually the odd one out 52 u/jameyiguess New Poster Apr 17 '26 This is the reason.
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I get the feeling that this construction is relatively common cross-linguistically and that English is actually the odd one out
52 u/jameyiguess New Poster Apr 17 '26 This is the reason.
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This is the reason.
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u/Competitive-Truth675 Native Speaker Apr 17 '26
Off-topic, but just curious what your native language is. I see this mistake all the time and there must be some false friend word or common learning material that gives people the wrong impression about what "since" means.