Can I use "onto x" to announce that I want toproceed withstart talking about a new subject?x?
For example, "Moving onto your agoraphobia, how come you've developed that?"
Do you have a suggestion for a shorter, more casual variant?"Regarding your agoraphobia..."
Soothing Dave's is good.Can you recommend anspokenEnglish phrase that doesn't require an additional word like the one you posted?
Shorter? No. More casual? Yes.Do you have a suggestion for a shorter, more casual variant?
Can I use "onto x" to announce that I want to proceed with talking about subject x?
For example, "Onto your Agoraphobia, how come you've developed that?"
Is the phrase "spoken English" really a mistake?
Do you have a suggestion for a shorter, more casual variant?
It's probably too common a phrase (just like "written English") to require explanation.Is the phrase "spoken English" really a mistake? I don't see explicit dictionary entries for it but the phrase is being used by eg. this sub-page of this dictionary website or in literature quoted on this page.
Really? I'm impressed. I haven't heard anybody say it in the last seventy-eight years. Where were you when you heard these words?I've heard several native English speakers say "on to the next game" within the last couple of days.
You're seventy-eight?! I've heard these words from two different Youtubers, presumably Americans in their twenties and they were playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. Before you ask, I wasn't able to find the exact moments they said it after searching for fifteen minutes.Really? I'm impressed. I haven't heard anybody say it in the last seventy-eight years. Where were you when you heard these words?
I've heard several native English speakers say "On to the next game.", within the last couple of days. Their intent was to say another round of a game (they were playing) was about to start. Have you guys never heard something like that?
I don't know how comparable the abovementioned sentence is to "On to your agoraphobia.", though.
Let me actually explain again and better in which context I wanted to use that: Being in the midst of a conversation and wanting to move to another topic, the other persons' agoraphobia.
(By the way, I believe my punctuation within the quotes above is wrong but I'm not sure what to do about it. I want to keep the dots to indicate the sentence was finished at that exact time and I don't want to restructure my sentence or add more than 2 additional words. Is there a solution?)
I suppose using "on to" in such a way is informal?
That baffles me because I assumed the phrase was something informal you didn't know and that that was why you said it couldn't be used that way, two months ago. Or was my explanation on how to use it back then just not good enough?No, I don't consider it informal at all.