• ripcord@lemmy.world
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      24 hours ago

      The sentence structure that people from different non-english-speaking countries use is really interesting.

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        22 hours ago

        After working with so many people from India, I would guess this person was originally from there. “Since 20 minutes” is a fairly common way that they say it.

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          18 hours ago

          In French you would say “depuis 20 minutes” which literally translates to “since 20 minutes,” and I imagine many other languages would phrase it the same way.