@benhamill hah yeah i'm native english, but even despite that i'm cautious about it haha, so in french it feels extremely weird

@candle I see what you're saying. I don't speak a second language well, but my understanding is that English (speakers?) is pretty forgiving such that it's much easier to learn English kinda meh and still be understood and then WAY hard to learn English like well. Compared to, say, French.

So my attitude about "I don't really worry about whether shit is grammatical to my listener. They'll figure it the hell out," might not apply to French.

@benhamill for the most part people seem to be understanding my attempts haha

@candle Then I think the important thing is: It's Working™. 😂

@sempervirenx oh interesting! so those verbs were avoided altogether?

@candle not but we were told to use synonyms instead (but they have different connotations so it was tricky sometimes)
Texts with a lot of repetitions is still considered lazy unless it has a purpose

@sempervirenx @candle Haha, that FUN AND HAPPY moment when you realize your painfully composed essay uses three times the same word within the same paragraph … "what synonym could i use, THIS is what i wanted to say! … Maybe if i cut this entire sentence and put this part after that instead, i can avoid restating it… T.T"

@Louvelune @candle yeah I feel u this is the worst, why is french so mean with repetitions come on they're not evil