u/lifelongmoteki

Just an exercise... See if you can transcribe this. It's not particularly hard, but they're talking at full speed, and there's one small bit of Osaka-ben in it.

Please hide your answer with spoiler tags. I will comment with the answer in about 22 hours from posting this.

Below is a very loose and liberal English translation. It may help you predict what they're saying.

Context: Three guys are playing a card game of "BS", and they've gone around the table twice without anyone calling BS.

https://voca.ro/15ufZMi9kw1T

A: Um, was I the very first one to go (to play a card)?

B: Oh, I guess so.

C: Yeah, huh.

Hey fellow native speakers from across the pond.

Let’s say you were leaving a note for a friend because you had forgotten to tell them you were going on holiday and would be taking a hiatus from your daily game of checkers until you got back. You might end the note with: “I look forward to playing with you again…”

In US English, we might say “starting on the 7th”

or “from the 7th **onward”**

…but not “from the 7th.”

I know that this last one will sometimes come up in articles in the BBC, but when would you use it and when would you not?

Would you use it in a casual conversation?

Would you use it in a casually written note like this?

I got a note from a non-native speaker that ended this way, and it occurred to me that she may not be totally wrong, even though it feels off to me as an American seeing it in any kind of writing. I wanted to get a feel for whether someone from the UK would feel similar.

(We don’t play checkers; that was an arbitrary example.)