Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I think English allows you more different ways of doing things than most other languages. The future tense being "going to X" and one of the past tenses being "used to X" means that new English learners don't need to spend as much time studying yet another verb tense.

OTOH, the spelling and pronunciation is such a massive hurdle compared to a simple language like Spanish.