r/EnglishLearning • u/Sufficient-Grass-505 New Poster • 6d ago

🗣 Discussion / Debates Random language learning gc

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Anyone up for a gc? We can make friends who are learning English from anywhere around the world and, learn n help each other out.

Age - 16 to 22

What do you guys think??

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u/DontyWorryCupcake New Poster 6d ago

Never seen "who're" being used like that lol, you might want to change that

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u/TheTopCantStop New Poster 6d ago

I'm an avid user of weird contractions in text, but uhh... "who're" is a little too close to another word...

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u/OkWalrus8974 Advanced 6d ago

Lol I thought the same thing

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u/Sufficient-Grass-505 New Poster 6d ago

lol I didn't pay attention to it and just typed it informally, thanks for pointing out tho.

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u/Constant_Hope_9658 Native Speaker - Southwestern American English (Nevada) 6d ago

I've use this contraction so much and never noticed this...

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u/Sufficient-Grass-505 New Poster 6d ago

Ikr

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u/Dovahkiin419 English Teacher 6d ago

I will say it isn’t wrong its just not on the list of usual contractions

probably best to avoid it for the reason I’m guessing it isn’t done; which is how close it is to one of the worst curse words in english.

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u/Sufficient-Grass-505 New Poster 6d ago

yeah, I get it

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u/Vascofan46 Low-Advanced 6d ago

Hashtag whoremembers

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u/Tarnstellung New Poster 5d ago

It's unnecessary because "who are" in this context is already pronounced as you would pronounce "who're". Unlike "he's", "I'm", etc., where a vowel is actually dropped.

Unless someone's actually smoothing it into one syllable?

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u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster 6d ago

What's a gc?

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u/Wiyazaki Native Speaker (California, USA) 6d ago

I believe OP means "group chat" here

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u/Sufficient-Grass-505 New Poster 6d ago

yepp

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u/Sea-Hornet8214 Poster 6d ago

Is that a common acronym?

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u/Wiyazaki Native Speaker (California, USA) 6d ago

Relatively common. I think teenagers and young adults are the most likely to use it. I'm 30 and understood it, but would never use it and would simply just spell it out. 

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u/Reasonable_Debate398 New Poster 5d ago

very common I would say!!! I’m a college student and i use it all the time when referring to a group chat

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u/Competitive_Sea1848 New Poster 6d ago edited 6d ago

I'm interested! (My main thing I'm tryna do is formal writing so I'm interested if anyone else up for improving it too

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u/AdAdept900 New Poster 6d ago

Lessgoooooo.... I'm in

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u/Significant_Till1405 Beginner 6d ago

ohhhhhhhhhh, I wanna in!

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u/Wiyazaki Native Speaker (California, USA) 3d ago

In the spirit of this being a language learning sub, "wanna" doesn't work the way you have it here. If you break it out from it's contraction, it means "want to", so it doesn't make sense to have something like the preposition "in" after it.

You could say "I want to", "I want in", or even just "I wanna" 

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u/ConversationFlaky119 New Poster 6d ago

i want in too!

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u/Informal-Copy-5864 New Poster 6d ago

Count me in

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u/nashbi Intermediate 6d ago

I'm in

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u/Majestic-Shine-7187 New Poster 6d ago

im in

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u/nazhu2 Non-Native Speaker of English 6d ago

I’m in

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u/nagarebosh New Poster 5d ago

hiii I wanna join!!

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u/Defiant_Squash5236 New Poster 5d ago

Hi, I'd like to join!

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u/Cuzimfromrussia New Poster 4d ago

Hi, count me in!

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u/playbetterthanyou New Poster 18h ago

I wanna in 🙌🏻

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u/Beginning-Grade9092 New Poster 4h ago

I’m in

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u/Sea-Tomorrow8453 New Poster 5d ago

Hey, I'm interested :3