#I've been getting really into the vlogging subgenre
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chicago-geniza · 1 month ago
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Current favorite vlogger is a Polish guy who teaches English as a foreign language and he gives English equivalents of Polish words at B1, B2, C1, and C2 vocabulary levels and as far as I can tell the "algorithm" to assign complexity is 50% based on register, 50% a frequency-of-usage sliding scale from everyday conversational to "you would only encounter this collocation in a 19th-century novel." That's not why he's my favorite though. He's my favorite because he has one of those waxed 2010s hipster mustaches, and because his translations are, very often, wrong. Not glaringly wrong, just wrong in a more subtle, applied-linguistics way where you could technically cite a dictionary definition and earn your Scrabble points, but nobody actually uses the word like he does in his sample sentences
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