It’s a terrible disorganised mess, it’s inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.
It’s a terrible disorganised mess, it’s inconsistent, it makes very little objective sense, but for some reason we seem to have settled on it as the default.
Get more contact with native speakers. No shade but half of them don’t even know the rules
I know how you feel, I also feel that. I am not always sure how to navigate cultural connotations of words, sometimes a native surprises me by using a phrase, that I have known before, in a way that I knew is the proper use but would have never come up with that myself. Yet, since I started spending more personal time with native speakers, I would often be asked to take a look at a draft of their message. Or they ask me how would I word something. Because “you are better with words” ¯\(ツ)/¯ The difference is, you and I pay attention to what/how we say it. Native speakers often just say it as it comes
Granted, as we already established, I am not a native speaker but by looking at your posts I would not say you are struggling with English