You know what I like? Idioms.<\/p>\n
Idioms separate the native speakers from those that learned English from a book or in a classroom. Idioms are often illogical and fly in the face of reason, but they stick around because of their sheer charm.<\/p>\n
If a person could live like an idiom, what a world this would be.<\/p>\n
You know what I enjoy more than idioms? Foreign people who use idioms slightly incorrectly or too often, because they\u2019ve just learned them and want to show off their knowledge of the language.<\/p>\n
I enjoy this partially out of the complex linguistic niche that idioms fill and how hard it is to describe when learning English. But I think I also enjoy it partially because I wish I could use idioms that often, that I could get away with it. As it is, I\u2019m relegated to using them only when they are one of the most popular (\u201clet\u2019s call it a day\u201d) or in the rare occasion when I want to sound obtuse (\u201clong in the tooth\u201d). How I wish I could sprinkle them in conversation as if I had just learned them, beaming with pride and satisfaction for mastering a complex turn of phrase.<\/p>\n
When all is said and done, though, I\u2019m all talk and no cider anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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