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Originally Posted by lumpynose
Exactly. I've always wondered how people who learn English as a second language compare English to their native language and if their native language has so many exceptions, little gotchas, corner cases, and all sorts of quirks and anomalies.
(HarryT, I updated my reply to add the US to it.)
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I've actually had to consult the rules more than once in my native language, because I wasn't absolutely certain of something. But English rules were specifically taught at school. Perhaps it's always the difference between native and foreign languages. You're just expected to know the rules of your own language, whereas foreign languages are "beaten into your head", so to speak.
