Thread 24717612

>commence to read the preface by literally who
>immediately spoils the ending

>>24717612 (OP)
>comence to read
esl-kun...

>>24717622
The phrase “commence to x” would only be familiar to native English speakers since it is seldom written

>>24717634
ESL

vatnik or chinese
call it

>>24717640
>>24717649
>being unfamiliar with colloquialisms


https://youtu.be/LXCwlO2jnYU

Neither of you is a native English speaker

>>24717671
*neither one of you

>>24717671
>t. ESL who learned English from vaudeville plays and moving pictures

>>24717742
That doesn’t exist

>>24717634
It's commences to read not commence

>>24717612 (OP)
relatable. I also read the commence after watching this video

>>24717829
Not if first-person

>>24717850
A thing commence
Commence to read is more like a teacher announcing a test is starting.
>He commences to commence the test

>>24717612 (OP)
>>24717649
Neither. He's a frog. I'd bet my bottom fucking dollar.

>muh spoilers
grow up. journey not destination

>>24717612 (OP)
>plotfags unable to comprehend the book beyond the plot

>>24717612 (OP)
>>preface by literally who
I think prefaces are written by the book's author. Forewards written by other people are usually a terrible waste of time.

>avoid reading "introduction" to avoid spoilers
>finish book
>return to intro
>it spoils a different book

>>24718410
Lmao real shit

>>24717612 (OP)
>read Anna Karenina
>a new character is introduced on every page
>can't keep Russian fucking naming straight
>check reference list of principal characters
>it spoils the outcome of a romantic intrigue introduced in the first few pages

>>24717612 (OP)
I bought a nice omnibus of the first three Gaunt's Ghosts series, and in the preface the author himself spoils the death of an apparently beloved character and how everyone was mad at him for it

It was stupid, but the worst part is that the character doesn't even die in the first three books in the omnibus. So he spoiled a plot beat that apparently happens deep in the series in an omnibus intended as an introduction

What a fucking moron

>>24717634
Not really, ESLs always use these weird idioms because they learned English from books or movies. On /lit/ you can always tell who’s an ESL because they use archaic stilted language they learned from reading 19th century novels.

>>24718556
As a colloquial phrase, “commence to” is extremely rare in either film or boom, it is usually used in conversation ironically because it is an archaic colloquialism, along with terms like “tarnation” and “gee willikers”

>>24717770
.....Jesus has a kipa

>>24717770
Spic Fuentes picks it up

>read footnote
>spoils main character's death
At least the preface is avoidable.

>>24718615
Ben Shapiro already said he is taking over TPUSA

>>24717770
>build a career pretending to be a Christian
>do not have the protection of God
reminder that right-wing politics are fundamentally antithetical to the teachings of Christ.
find God, build community, love thy neighbor, and stop propping up these satanic cunts.

>>24717612 (OP)
>tfw you hate normal healthy successful white married conservative men because you cannot refute their civil arguments.
>tfw your reward for hating all that is good in the world to literally no productive or constructive end and for refusing to accept Christ’s love of your own volition will be to be cast into the bottom circle of hell.

>>24717649

I think it's a frog. Only they would start explaining things in details after being exposed for something, this is definitely esl judging by their defensive behavior

>>24718725
i look like this and i commence like this

>>24718592
You didn’t even finish reading the post, ESL.

If you read this you are gay lmao

>>24719483
I think the immunity dog might cover this.

>>24717612 (OP)
>immediately spoils the ending
Its actually amazing how many of them do this and im not sure how or why its allowed. The introduction shouldnt be discussing the ending of the book.

>>24717612 (OP)
I stopped reading introductions a long time ago because of this.

>>24717770
Jesus is a jew?

>>24717612 (OP)
>Ah yeah that husband of mine... jeez... I mean this was like his favourite chair anyway just putting it out there I'm back on Tinder and available. Hope you see this Mr Trump, JD, shoot me a DM anytime

You know. Sometimes I think that it is bad to kill other people.
But then again, I also sometimes believe that I should be allowed to kill people who insult me in ways that have nothing really to do with politics. Whatever, the world is a garbage dump and deserves nuclear annihilation

>>24720331
Yeah, that should be called "analysis" and it should come at the end of the book.

>>24717612 (OP)
This guy made the last sentence of his life ever a racist dog whistle. Man, what an utterly undignified way to die.

>>24721271
in a perfect world people wouldnt get shot for political beliefs but its not as if its a new concept.
bring or embolden hate in the world and it has a nasty habit of coming back to bite you in the ass (or neck)

You people read prefaces and introductions? I skip them every time, especially if they're written by anyone other than the author

>>24721271
>Whatever, the world is a garbage dump and deserves nuclear annihilation
agreed

Charlie Kirk, whatever happened there

>>24721469
he was right though, the supposed "mass shooting" stats that libs like to cite are mostly just gangs shooting up each other's blocks

>>24717622
specifically latin esl

>>24717770
what did she mean by this?

>>24718410
this

>commence to read the preface by literally who
>gets brainwashed of that preface

>>24717612 (OP)
>read map of St Petersburg from the first 5 pages of Crime and Punishment
>one area is clearly labeled "Svidrigailov's suicide place"

>>24721469
He would have lived if he screamed the nigger word.

>>24717634
Speaking as someone who tutors ESL people, >>24718556 is spot on. Recently I was helping a man who has a very elementary grasp of English and out of nowhere he used the word "replete." He learned it from an instagram reel from a person who barely peaks English. This is very common.

>>24717612 (OP)
>…commence the jigglin’

>>24723142
Or you can just be more interested in reading and pick up a wider linguistic variation than the average softheaded cunt who thinks he’s mastered the language becoz I grews up speakin it din I?

>>24723147
No. Most people can barely read anymore, they just look at tiktok and instagram.

>>24723147
English is still a Germanic language
using Latin constructions like "commence to" isn't English

>>24717622
The rest of the world doesn't care about your bastard language. We don't want to learn English, we have to.

Spoilers literally don't matter, they only ruin contemporary TV slop because bad writers have to rely on surprise and plot twists to make their audiences feel anything but indifference for the derivative garbage they shit out on indsutrial scale.

>>24724876
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