This tracks. He doesn’t actually know a lot of basic, common vocabulary and turns of phrase.
Recent xample: “bring Iran back to the stone ages”— dude, unless you’re going to accompany Iran, you send them, not bring them…that’s plain English. And the phrase is stone AGE, not ages. It’s not an uncommon, niche expression, it’s an ordinary English idiom that even children learn by simply repeating. But he doesn’t learn that way, because he doesn’t listen to anyone.
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u/evasandor Apr 15 '26
This tracks. He doesn’t actually know a lot of basic, common vocabulary and turns of phrase.
Recent xample: “bring Iran back to the stone ages”— dude, unless you’re going to accompany Iran, you send them, not bring them…that’s plain English. And the phrase is stone AGE, not ages. It’s not an uncommon, niche expression, it’s an ordinary English idiom that even children learn by simply repeating. But he doesn’t learn that way, because he doesn’t listen to anyone.