Re: Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus

On 4/30/24 08:58, Kyonshi wrote:

On 4/26/2024 10:33 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

Pearls Before Swine: Man-Eating Octopus
    https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2024/04/26
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Yup, English is hard for the native born.  I pity people who learned English not immersed in the culture.
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Lynn

 I constantly have to doublecheck with myself if some stuff you guys are writing everywhere maybe makes more sense for you. Although the larger culture is ok, it's the small stuff nobody actually talks about that's the problem: stuff you eat, stuff you use in your household, things from school. There's a surprising amount of stuff nobody ever really seems to talk about but uses every day.

"Go off" and "go on" can have the same meaning, which can really confuse even native English speakers. It all depends on context.
On a trip I took long ago, I was installing a system in a non-English speaking country. We had devices that would classify radio signals and would generate a notice when certain signals were detected.
So the classifier would "go off", kind of like a bomb going off or "go on" because it was now active. When the signal went away, the classifier would "go off" because it was now inactive. Our hosts were in a constant state of confusion
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