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There's no way to verify the accuracy of the transcripts without listening to the corresponding words. Are you really asking us to...

Thanks @Amigos4. Typo corrected @5jj.

It needs the words "in the" before "U.S.", and "feel" should be "feeling". It looks like the article hasn't been proofread.

My reading is that the writer's used "status" to mean "situation" or "state of affairs". The word "status" can mean that, though it's...

Pidgin seems an apt description to me. It makes no sense in standard English. Why dey vex? = why are they vexed? Why you dey vex? = why...

You could consider townsfolk. Click here for examples.

For a town, yes.

You might use "homies" as a plural of homey, but that word is largely confined to black Americans. In mainstream English I think @Barque...

Yes. A pair of shoes are not exactly the same. If they were, they'd only fit one foot.

I'm on board with Skrej's interpretation (post #11). Military training turns soft men into fully hardened killing machines. Gustav...

You can often express an idea in more than one way. That's true of various other languages too, not just English. Yes. No.

No. A key binding is where a key or combination of keys is assigned to perform a task, such as ctrl-c to copy and ctrl-v to paste. You...

I've never heard or seen it used. Why not just say something like "press the spacebar while holding down the ALT key"?

We used to be given prompts to "compare and contrast" two things. That is "how are they alike, and how do they differ?"