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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mike Cash" data-source="post: 798597" data-attributes="member: 36">To the degree that perception is reality, to me they don't sound like mistakes....they ARE mistakes.Yes, that is precisely what has happened to me; my English is encased in amber. For longer than most of you would probably believe, spoken English simply has not been a part of my daily existence. I don't speak it to others and nobody around me speaks it to me. Most certainly no native speakers, especially any whose English has kept up with current usage. My most recent and often rather jarring re-introduction to spoken American English has been through podcasts...a great many of which despite their being well-produced and having interesting content I simply unsubscribe and delete because I just simply can not bear the way the hosts talk. It's like have someone vigorously rubbing a cheese grater on my ears.</blockquote>