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jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

There isn't an idea, and there's nothing wrong in the photo.

And you still haven't said what you mean by 'casual'.
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Your original post would make more sense if you were a bit clearer about what you're trying to say.

What do you mean by ''casual'?
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]

That doesn't make much sense. Have you started drinking early?

You can hardly judge four nations' relationship with food on the basis of a made up text aimed at juvenile language acquisition.

Read Jane Grigson or Eliza Acton instead.

Anyway, the thread was started by a notorious troll who emigrated and failed to adjust.
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Travel is OK

BS. Travel is barely acceptable as a heuristic. A proficient user of the language would say go.

By 'casual' do you mean the rubric, and what exactly do you mean by casual? Is it wearing slacks and a polo shirt?
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Nothing 'casual', nothing unusual.

Your photo cuts off part way through the rubric. Does it explain that they have to change the form of the verb? Some course books do and some expect the teacher to make that clear.

I wouldn't use travel though when go is fine.
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]

you don`t appreciate food

We certainly do, however you're trolling in a trolling thread.

A kid in a 'fifth grade' (whatever that is) textbook who is probably non-existent is hardly an arbiter of taste.

And nothing the fictional kid says supports your trolling for reactions.
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]

avoid using that special form

Most people wouldn't ever consider doing it.

The film of this suggests it was deliberate.

Musk isn't the first accused of being a Nazi,

It's pretty well what he is.
jon357   
21 Jan 2025
USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]

The hat is to stop the appalling husband from kissing her.

That and to hide the love bites she gets from that department store security guard she's with now.
jon357   
20 Jan 2025
USA, Canada / Will Americans flee from the US to Poland? [186]

It looks like it's getting dangerous there. Today, a fascist group called the 'proud boys' were marching through Washington intimidating people and the appalling Musk person gave a salute during a speech which would be illegal in Germany.
jon357   
20 Jan 2025
Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [68]

What's wrong with it?

Nothing, however in British English it's not in the best register.

said "I reckon" maybe that's better

Probably yes, though still very informal.

here.... is 'crack on' originally British or an import from Australian?

Probably British. Thinking about it, even very. More northern English than southern.

Incidentally, the Irish word "craic" comes from Yorkshire "crack" via soldiers stationed there many years ago.
jon357   
20 Jan 2025
Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [68]

It's very American however it's an option to use in FCE due to transference from American via media. Informal only and socially below a certain level.

They also permit "looks like" as an alternative to "looks as though".

British authors of ESL textbooks

There are none, however most EFL textbooks are written by British authors.
jon357   
20 Jan 2025
UK, Ireland / What English food would you serve a Pole? [172]

PS. I forgot I always mix it with coke for a bit sweeter flavour.

I'd mix it with vodka and Tabasco. Though not at breakfast.
jon357   
20 Jan 2025
Life / Racism in Poland - the future [558]

mixed black/non-black features

Essentially black. Among Tebu, many other Sahrawis and a few other groups there's historical admixture as there is among Spaniards in the south). A common term for Tuareg in the west is 'aswadi' meaning black. There are some lighter skinned ones in the north.

One issue here is perception. Most whites know of black people whose roots are in the western bulge of Africa (due to historical slavery) or South Africans because they've seen them in TV. The populations across Africa are more varied.

muslims moral criticism of slavery

The word "and" means slave or servant. In Mauritania, a place well known to me, all the anti-slavery activists are Muslim.

And of course you were probably looking for things in English.

the majority of the worst offenders are citizens of the countries

As are the majority of the people in a given place (except Qatar when there's no chattel slavery but certainly modern slavery among labourers).