English As a Second Language
I'm looking for a term people would use on a day to day basis for the machines where you return empty bottles/cans and earn your deposit back. Wikipedia calls them [Reverse Vending Machine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_vending_machine) but my Anglophone friend and I don't believe that's a term people would use on the street. ChatGPT says the most commonly used term in the UK is "Bottle Return Machine" or "Bottle Return" but I can't find sources on the web for that. TIA!
cross-posted from: https://lemy.lol/post/196311 > I'm from Turkey so English isn't my native language. We just call **O** in Turkish to no matter its he/she/it. Is there an equivalent of this generic term on English? > > I don't want to call he to a female or vice versa.
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If these changes stuck it would have been nice
🤯 usually it's -ize/ise but english so -yze --- would be cool if these were correct: computerize. computeryze colonize. colonyze mark my words, there will be a company called computeryze one day
Are they both words? My autocorrect doesn't catch toliet for some reason.
Is it possible for lemmys to be correct? Lemmies seems more correct, but i see lemmys around frequently
If it was a cupboard, it'd be a drawer.
From: What’s their instance's sptick? Like lemmygrad is communist, mander.xyz is science etc. --- I tried a thesaurus for 'thing' and 'theme' and no avail.
"I think yes because having to manually go and create a room is more time consuming, but the trade **off** is having dead sublemmys creating dead chatrooms." I've read through a few articles on whether to use of vs off and I don't understand. Am I using the right off in this statement? Any tricks to remember?
For the past 2 years, I've been "learning" English. Well, in my case, learning English is not something I planned to do at first. I don't even know I was "learning". I just watched a bunch of youtube videos, and the next thing I know I can speak a little English. But now that I have a little bit knowledge of the English language, I want to actually learn it. Not just by watching random YouTube videos. I have watched and tried different ways to learn like for example flashcards, watch movies, read books, speaking to myself, etc. But I feel like I am not improving. When I speak to other people in English, I feel like I'm not as good as I think I would. So, now I'm frustrated, thinking about how to learn and ACTUALLY improve. What are your thoughts about this?
Wikipedia and other sources tend to use "the Fediverse", but I've also seen just "Fediverse". From what I know, it depends on whether the term is a proper name or just the name of a unique thing. Could someone please explain how do you think the term should be properly named and why?
English As a Second Language
!english_esl@lemmy.mlAll things for those who use the English language but still there's a lot to learn.
Please follow the instance's guidelines and keep on-topic. Any level of question is welcome, either from a beginner or from an almost-native speaker.