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@Diego.Magionami thank you for sharing – absolutely true about the States. I’ve noticed this in TV series, such as The Wire, where sometimes I needed to put subtitles. I think it makes life more interesting to abandon our idea of a ‘correct’ English, especially the one taught here in schools – as you’ve said, it is rarely used!
Diego, this is nicely written. Here are some notes to help you improve:
> when we say countries that are ‘plural’ we always need to use ‘the’, the UK, the US, the Netherlands etc (Plus watch your verb agreement) : I wasn’t aware that in THE UK there WERE so many accents
> Actually I don’t care about accents AS LONG AS they don’t hinder communication
until is not correct here, we can’t use it like ‘finche: “As long as [x]” means that the condition will be met when [x] ends.”Until [x]” means that the condition will be met when [x] begins.
Let me know if this isn’t clear.
> I feel quite annoyed when someone use a local accents …. can you try and correct this phrase? 👍