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[@suzubee9602]

this was a dumb argument I never thought of this as an american vs british usage thing. For me (I'm American) I use burnt if it's an adjective and burned when using it as a verb in the past tense, but if anyone used it differently I probably wouldn't even notice or care because I would have understood them 100%

[@IowaLanguages]

True - I would say burnt toast as an American. Forgot about that. Spot on.

[@mep6302]

As a non-native English speaker, I thought "learnt", "burnt" and so on were, besides being a more British way of saying and writing it, a formal way of saying and writing "learned" "burned" because those last forms are regular and the t forms are irregular. I never thought a British guy would think otherwise 😂. I could swear he was American before realizing he was actually English.

[@KevinAbroad]

Same! I actually was taught that learnt and burnt were more formal. I mean it's literally taught in textbooks so it's formal language. He doesn't know what he's on about 😂

[@Im_a_Chill_Panda]

We tend to use learnt in the UK 😂

[@IowaLanguages]

I’m American and we say learned. I didn’t know the British say learnt. We would use burnt as an adjective (burnt toast). Cool. Why is this viewer so bent out of shape over this? Kevin, you speak way, way better English than I do. It’s my only language and I’m 63 years old. (I’m learning French and Turkish.) Your use of vocabulary is very impressive! I use more basic words and I have a college degree. This guy has issues for sure. I love your channel!! ❤🇫🇷 💕 🇺🇸 💓 Carry on being amazing!😻

[@KevinAbroad]

I take it as a compliment, thank you! Glad you enjoy the channel :)

[@neauphilippe4844]

Do not feel upset by people who do not know anything about English Grammar .

[@KevinAbroad]

They definitely didn't know anything about grammar 🤭

[@neauphilippe4844]

We can both say learned ( more American) or learnt ( more English) . As an adjective, learned is used in British English whereas learnt is used in American English.

[@langdinish]

Pretty sure I was thought in school that burnt and learnt were the "correct" forms of the past these of those verbs lol (although in my view it seems more of completed/definitive action, or not, sort of difference and I might use burned/learned more often, while in my mind even thinking I might be called out for being wrong?? Weird. Guess people with Cambridge English teaching degrees and decades of teaching experience are all wrong too)

[@guilhermenogueirar]

That’s such an useless discussion. He’s clearly ridiculing you for being a non-native speaker. He wouldn’t even need to mention your nationality if that was a real language mistake, just show a reliable grammar and prove him wrong bro 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@RhapsodyinLingo]

That emeritus professor made an interesting comment. It reminds me of the supine and participle in Swedish: the supine ends in -t and is used in perfect tenses, while the past participle ends in -d and is used as an adjective. It seems like the two forms merged in most Germanic languages but remained in burnt and learnt. A well-read scholar can only be learned but not learnt, for example. I don't know about burn though.

[@exponentzero]

An interesting difference between dreamed and dreamt, (both are acceptable past tense forms of "to dream"), is that the -t or the -ed changes the pronunciation of the vowels -ea-.

[@logikalx]

We would never use learnt here but I also know its correct

[@neauphilippe4844]

So, you are right .

[@Im_a_Chill_Panda]

That's how you spell it though????? Ok, the "How dare you teach me about your second language " made me laugh so much. I've learnt so much English grammar from foreigners because they've had to learn it while natives don't. I don't think I even knew what a infinitive was until I started learning languages. 😂

[@KevinAbroad]

Haha, I didn't lie when I said it was unhinged. And yeah, native speakers often believe they know their language better than non-natives. That one wasn't lucky with me :p.

[@TheWishDragon]

Ooof, telling a linguist what to do. LOL.

[@joakimbertil]

I guess the one comment meant that "learned" is used as an adjective as opposed to learnt being only the past tense. And I think this is where the original comment confuses them both when talking about the "pronunciation being ok but lazy". Also, clearly the original comment poster has no idea what they're talking about (and also ignored all the other comments jumping to your defense). And I'm amazed that linguist would (essentially) say that "learnt" is "ok but wrong". Makes no sense. Damn, this was a ride. I've had the same experience in German, btw. It was so funny.

[@KevinAbroad]

As a verb, learnt/learned are interchangeable. You could argue that sometimes it's more natural to use one over the other but even then I don't think anyone would mind. However, you're right. You couldnt "a learnt man". You would say "a learned person". So this guy has no clue about his own language probably 😂

[@joakimbertil]

@@KevinAbroad yeah no, I'm agreeing with you. Trying to make sense of other people's comments. And foremost what the original poster means by "lazy pronunciation" because as a verb, it's always /lernd/. You don't say /lernid/ when its function is as a verb afaik.

[@jamessweet6296]

British English and American English are very much the same, and very much different... Much like québécois French and métropole French.... I don't care, I love them all (not to mention the many different regional variations). In any case, language is for communication, and if you understand, who cares? Although I have never seen "learnt" spelled like that and would never say it like that... Again who cares... Let's just understand one another and move one ***I mean, I'm a native English speaker and like at how bad my grammar and punctuation is 😂

[@guilhermenogueirar]

Also, it’s so egocentric to declare himself as a linguistic reference just because he’s a native speaker. That’s just saying that a linguist’s work is useless and he never ever needed his English classes at school. Of course it’s a real reference for slangs and street language, but that’s waaaaay different of being an authority to visit people’s works in English and criticize their writings like this. Finally, I can tell you most French people don’t master their own language. It’s not the case of Kevin, but I often hear people saying: ils « croivent » (doesn’t exist), not according the passé composé’s past participles with COD avant le verbe, forgetting the plurals when they write just because it doesn’t pronounce at the oral language… and I know quite well the pain that Kevin’s mentioning, in most countries it doesn’t matter how much you study, practice and master a language, there’ll always be people to reduce and criticize your work just because you’re a foreigner. And here I complete with my own moral lesson: it’s not the migrants fault that you xenophobic guys are not getting good jobs with high wages simply because you don’t want to study and qualify yourself and think you deserve stuff for free by naturally having English or French or whatever blood. Stop labeling people’s competences by their nationalities, that’s just one more aspect of their lives, we’re all so different of each others and that’s what makes us humans!

[@jahipalmer8782]

This is hilarious.