Language Question for the Native Speakers of English :D

[moonweasel]

I would be wary of asking advice of "native English speakers" online. Many don't know the difference basic everyday words like, then/than, their/there/they're, your/you're, to name a few.
Asking for something like this may be like dividing by zero. I am no grammer professional myself, but I see nothing inherently wrong about this*, unusual maybe, but not wrong. As with most things though context matters.
English has many quirks where some things things are more correct than others, while not being exactly incorrect in the first place.

*Spoken as a native Kiwi speaker, bro.

[pfrsantos]

Being from New Jersey, most people here would say that I'm not capable of speaking English.   For the record, Tony Soprano does not have an accent at all.

Not anymore, he doesn't...

 

[pfrsantos]

I would like to give thoughts on this but I'm  dyslexic so my lnput would probly be worthless !

Your probly write...

 

[Weasel]

Haha

[PWC]

Welcome, PWC! (Which field in linguistics, btw?)

Thanks! I am in English language studies which is kind of a mish-mash of historical linguistics, philology, and sociolinguistics. A lot of my research deals with Standard Written English and language policy and planning.

[Huntsman]

,,,,,,,,
Anyway to me it should be the past simple as you say:
[person's name] had studied [subject] in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005.
............Blah Blah............

You pretty much summed up my thoughts.

Thank you Whoey

BTW - For the record I speak the original English    ... Mwahah 

We watch a lot of Australian reality DIY shows, I'm not very sure Aussies can claim "original English" as a skill 

Just coz I live in Oz it does not mean I speak Oz or am Aussie 

[Whoey]

,,,,,,,,
Anyway to me it should be the past simple as you say:
[person's name] had studied [subject] in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005.
............Blah Blah............

You pretty much summed up my thoughts.

Thank you Whoey

BTW - For the record I speak the original English    ... Mwahah 

We watch a lot of Australian reality DIY shows, I'm not very sure Aussies can claim "original English" as a skill 

Just coz I live in Oz it does not mean I speak Oz or am Aussie 

True, I'm a Canadian living in Spain so...

[Sea Monster]

Linguist here. I may be able to shed some light on the question. The past perfect construction tends to show up with prepositional phrases in English as in "he had studied 'with' the professor," so it may seem strange in this context. In the larger body of language use, however, this isn't really all that out of the ordinary.

Is it bad that none of those words made sense to me? 

[ironraven]

Linguist here. I may be able to shed some light on the question. The past perfect construction tends to show up with prepositional phrases in English as in "he had studied 'with' the professor," so it may seem strange in this context. In the larger body of language use, however, this isn't really all that out of the ordinary.

New guy said it almost exactly how I would have, just fancier.

I've seen this before in college transcripts when they are explaining the curriculum of a particular degree. It is clunky, and possibly even a little archaic or at least not colloquial, but accurate. Similiarly, if someone was to hold up a picture of me and say "is this him?", they would be less than perfect; "is this he" more so, but clunky. "Who are you looking for" vs "whom are you looking for", that kind of thing.

[N_N_R]

Linguist here. I may be able to shed some light on the question. The past perfect construction tends to show up with prepositional phrases in English as in "he had studied 'with' the professor," so it may seem strange in this context. In the larger body of language use, however, this isn't really all that out of the ordinary.

New guy said it almost exactly how I would have, just fancier.

I've seen this before in college transcripts when they are explaining the curriculum of a particular degree. It is clunky, and possibly even a little archaic or at least not colloquial, but accurate. Similiarly, if someone was to hold up a picture of me and say "is this him?", they would be less than perfect; "is this he" more so, but clunky. "Who are you looking for" vs "whom are you looking for", that kind of thing.

Thanks!