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Is it cold in here?:
More ESL speakers share their puzzlements
JoeCovenant:
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What's wrong with "good" and "food"...? (No: 26)
And No: 32.... come and go? how could they be the same word???
LTK:
"Come home" and "go home" mean the same thing. The only difference is where the speaker is.
To be specific, you could rephrase one as "Bring yourself home, where I also am" and the other as just "bring yourself home". It would be understandable for a non-native speaker to miss that.
And 'good', 'food', 'foot' all have different pronunciations, don't they?
JoeCovenant:
--- Quote from: LTK on 04 Jul 2018, 03:06 ---"Come home" and "go home" mean the same thing. The only difference is where the speaker is.
To be specific, you could rephrase one as "Bring yourself home, where I also am" and the other as just "bring yourself home". It would be understandable for a non-native speaker to miss that.
And 'good', 'food', 'foot' all have different pronunciations, don't they?
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Good and food and foot all sound the same with a Scottish accent! :)
(Its a long time since my RP lessons, but even using that good and food still 'sound' the same to me. Again, all depends on accent. A M&S advert for example could show a huge difference between Gud and Foow'd)
And you've kinda made my point on 'go' and 'come' being different - they are. Context is all.
The end result go coming home and going home may be the same. But if you are standing in front of someone and say "come home" that means go with them to their own. If you say "Go home" that means go to your own home.
Even if they are the same place, come home (generally) means go there with that person, "go home" means get away from that person.
(And then there's that odd American (and I think *Irish*) use of "Bring"...)
Thrillho:
One of the things that drives me insane about the Co-Op is that their slogan is 'good with food' which only works if you have a Scot doing the voiceover.
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