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   Yukari 丼Peerless☑️ (yukari@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 09:02:55 JST Yukari 丼Peerless☑️

   When I learned English in Japan when I was in middle/high school, I learned you don't say "Discuss about~". It's always "Discuss XYZ". Just saw local TV station's headline using "discuss about"...

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     Yukari 丼Peerless☑️ (yukari@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 09:17:37 JST Yukari 丼Peerless☑️

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     • whetstone

     @whetstone Right. I think that one might have moved to accepted use? Not that I approve...but I use it too! It's like "literally" in English.

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     whetstone (whetstone@romancelandia.club)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 09:17:38 JST whetstone

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     @Yukari
     You definitely can’t trust native speakers to use language “correctly.”

     I learned ぜんぜん MUST be followed by a negative. :)

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     smellsofbikes (smellsofbikes@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 12-Nov-2022 09:31:28 JST smellsofbikes

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     @Yukari My Indian coworkers complain a lot about English dialectical/regional grammar patterns that were rigorously discouraged when they were taking English classes.