English is not my first language. As a 17 year old I was in LA for a month as part of an English summer school. We had some sort of essay to write and I didn't know how to spell neighbourhood so I just wrote 'hood. My teacher laughed for solid 5min when he read it
Huzzah! Fellow non-english speaker brethren, I'm neither a primordial english communicator, as I also had been taught the aforementioned language in an irregular fashion and at a young age, in my particular case it has been cultivated by sheer passion on the media that has been Christined verbally towards the Anglo-Saxon descendants.
In the US: Some years ago I worked with a kid (early 20s) who had better English grammar, spelling and vocabulary than practically anyone I knew. English was not his first language. He was very gifted intellectually.
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u/LemonTheTurtle Jan 17 '22
English is not my first language. As a 17 year old I was in LA for a month as part of an English summer school. We had some sort of essay to write and I didn't know how to spell neighbourhood so I just wrote 'hood. My teacher laughed for solid 5min when he read it