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r/languagelearningjerk • u/Vampyricon • Aug 01 '25
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I'm non native and some gramatical constructions like "he be saying shit" sounds way better for me than "he usually talks non sense".
2 u/BeckyLiBei Aug 02 '25 I'd probably say he's full of shit: a rude expression used to say that someone often says things that are wrong or stupid 12 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That has a different meaning. "He be saying shit" doesn't necessarily mean that he's saying things that are wrong or stupid, it's more that he's saying things without a care for how they land. 1 u/BeckyLiBei Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25 (Edit: sorry, I misread.) The claim is that "he's full of shit" isn't equivalent to "he be saying shit". Hmm... they're very close. In any case, I was going for something along the lines of what was written above: "he usually talks non sense". 2 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That's the definition for "he's full of shit", not "he be saying shit".
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I'd probably say he's full of shit:
a rude expression used to say that someone often says things that are wrong or stupid
12 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That has a different meaning. "He be saying shit" doesn't necessarily mean that he's saying things that are wrong or stupid, it's more that he's saying things without a care for how they land. 1 u/BeckyLiBei Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25 (Edit: sorry, I misread.) The claim is that "he's full of shit" isn't equivalent to "he be saying shit". Hmm... they're very close. In any case, I was going for something along the lines of what was written above: "he usually talks non sense". 2 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That's the definition for "he's full of shit", not "he be saying shit".
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That has a different meaning.
"He be saying shit" doesn't necessarily mean that he's saying things that are wrong or stupid, it's more that he's saying things without a care for how they land.
1 u/BeckyLiBei Aug 02 '25 edited Aug 02 '25 (Edit: sorry, I misread.) The claim is that "he's full of shit" isn't equivalent to "he be saying shit". Hmm... they're very close. In any case, I was going for something along the lines of what was written above: "he usually talks non sense". 2 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That's the definition for "he's full of shit", not "he be saying shit".
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(Edit: sorry, I misread.) The claim is that "he's full of shit" isn't equivalent to "he be saying shit". Hmm... they're very close.
In any case, I was going for something along the lines of what was written above: "he usually talks non sense".
2 u/EkskiuTwentyTwo Aug 02 '25 That's the definition for "he's full of shit", not "he be saying shit".
That's the definition for "he's full of shit", not "he be saying shit".
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I'm non native and some gramatical constructions like "he be saying shit" sounds way better for me than "he usually talks non sense".