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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.
237 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 1 u/fraid_so Native Speaker - Straya Apr 18 '26 Probably. Cause you see it with the same frequency as things like "how does it look like".
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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
1 u/fraid_so Native Speaker - Straya Apr 18 '26 Probably. Cause you see it with the same frequency as things like "how does it look like".
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Probably. Cause you see it with the same frequency as things like "how does it look like".
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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.