A disease caused by a rare “flesh-eating bacteria” that can kill people within 48 hours is spreading in Japan after the country relaxed Covid-era restrictions.
For what it’s worth, I always prefer being redundant if it makes the meaning clearer to a non-native speaker audience.
For instance I didn’t know “pandemic” implicitly meant “global”. In my ignorance I thought you could have a localized pandemic. But by saying “global pandemic” it makes it more obvious to everyone, including those who, like me, didn’t know.
Also I’ll personally keep saying “my phone had an LCD display” because it feels smoother than “my phone has a LCD”.
This is an important hint around all the jargon that anglos grew up repeating; and I only sometimes realize how deeply it pervades our speech.
“So I had to hit the ATM for a PATH ticket to get to SoHo and venmo a new LCD for my s20 instead of hopping the turnstile but I found some susy-Bs in my 505s so I was mint” could make perfect sense to an anglo (living in Jersey City) but to an Icelander there’s not much context to help dereference all the jargon.
Saying “‘ATM’ machine”, with the jargon explained a bit, could definitely help. I gotta be less of a pedantic dick.
For what it’s worth, I always prefer being redundant if it makes the meaning clearer to a non-native speaker audience.
For instance I didn’t know “pandemic” implicitly meant “global”. In my ignorance I thought you could have a localized pandemic. But by saying “global pandemic” it makes it more obvious to everyone, including those who, like me, didn’t know.
Also I’ll personally keep saying “my phone had an LCD display” because it feels smoother than “my phone has a LCD”.
I think a “localized pandemic” is an epidemic.
Ah right, that makes sense. Today I learned.
“LCD screen” might satisfy you and be non-redundant.
This is an important hint around all the jargon that anglos grew up repeating; and I only sometimes realize how deeply it pervades our speech.
“So I had to hit the ATM for a PATH ticket to get to SoHo and venmo a new LCD for my s20 instead of hopping the turnstile but I found some susy-Bs in my 505s so I was mint” could make perfect sense to an anglo (living in Jersey City) but to an Icelander there’s not much context to help dereference all the jargon.
Saying “‘ATM’ machine”, with the jargon explained a bit, could definitely help. I gotta be less of a pedantic dick.
Even for native speakers! If I told my parents to get a new LCD they’d think I was telling them to buy drugs.