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[GoodTaste]

Is the phrase "because walking walking" appropriate in English? It sounds odd to me.

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There must be fewer and fewer friends, because walking walking, the direction is inconsistent. Only same-minded people, to understand.

Source: From tiktok, the speaker is an American White.

 

[GoodTaste]

I guess what the speaker meant is:

There will be fewer and fewer friends left along the path of life, because the longer you walk, the more directions appear. Only the same-minded people will come together.

 

[teechar]

Source: From tiktok,

TikTok is just a social networking platform. It's hardly worth plucking sentences out of it and asking about them here.

the speaker is an American White.

That is inappropriate and may be considered offensive. Do not refer to a person as "a white".
In any case, what has that person's skin colour got to do with that sentence?! :shock:

 

[GoodTaste]

Is American Black an offense too? They don't look like offensive in Chinese.

 

[teechar]

Yes, "a black" or any variation of it would be considered offensive too.
Do not use "a"+colour to refer to a person.
You can say, for example,
"a white woman",
"a black man",
"a black/white baby/girl/boy",
In other words, do not use the colour as the main noun.

 

[GoodTaste]

OK now:
An American white man :up:
An American black man :up:

 

[teechar]

Those are acceptable. However, you may need to switch the adjectives around, depending on the context.

 

[emsr2d2]

Don't use TikTok to learn English.

 

[GoesStation]

There must be fewer and fewer friends, because walking walking, the direction is inconsistent. Only same-minded people, to understand.

Source: From tiktok, the speaker is an American … .

Whoever said or wrote that barely speaks English. It's gibberish.

 

[Skrej]

TikToks are videos - was this a transcription of what the speaker said, or captions the poster put on their own video?

I think one of three things is true:

1) If it's an accurate transcription, then the speaker in the video has limited English proficiency.
2) If it's an inaccurate transcription, then the person transcribing really seems to have misheard what was said and has limited knowledge of English themselves.
3) It's a gag-video, and the person in the video is deliberately speaking in very broken English.

 

[GoodTaste]

Don't use TikTok to learn English.

Not learning but to understand it. Here's a great challenge for advanced learners: Standard English is easy to understand, but it is hard to figure out non-standard or broken English by less educated native speakers (of course it is easy for native English speakers to see through it).

 

[GoodTaste]

It isn't, as you have seen in this thread.

That's because you native speakers are around here. Because you are well familiar with what is the rubbish and quickly steer away from it and know what is the essense and swiftly catch it. To reach this level of familiarity requires decades of immersing yourself in the sea of English works and culture. Do English learners have the condition and the time and the energy? Not at all.

 

[jutfrank]

Are you able to post the TikTok video here, GoodTaste?