#fatmax1492

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haughty ermineBOT
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Please be patient

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zenith tree
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it doesn't come from a verb

either the a from avoir has been forgotten, or intentonally written that way to reflect oral pronunciation (in QC the vowel of ça is often lengthened rather than pronouncing a separately)

open dagger
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I got it from auto generated captions 😆

zenith tree
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ok yeah, i was about to say that the spelling and rest of the sentence seem like a non-native speaker

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don't trust auto generated captions to be an accurate representation of things

open dagger
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I know, I'm still practising listening

zenith tree
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sure, just generated captions will actually do more harm than good

open dagger
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zenith tree
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Ça l'air être amuzant

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they make significant mistakes

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often

open dagger
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well yeah

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could you tell me what they're saying at least?

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I'd like to know the grammatical structure of the sentence

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it seems like this to me: Ça l'air d'être amuzant

zenith tree
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I'm not going to watch a video right now, but the correct phrase would be "ça a l'air d'être amusant"

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avoir l'air -> seems to be, sounds like

then if you want to follow it with an infinitive verb rather than an adjective, you use the preposition de

open dagger
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ooh

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tnx

limpid delta
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I mean, it’s not just a Quebec thing. I don’t know where that came from but OK.

zenith tree
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Good to know. That's where most of my exposure to the language is from. No need to make a passive aggressive comment

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Wasn't a judgemental statement on my end in any way

limpid delta