Teaching D at a Russian University

[Paolo Invernizzi]

On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 04:38:46 UTC, matheus wrote:
> On Sunday, 20 February 2022 at 03:44:42 UTC, Paul Backus wrote:
>> Yes, this is a perfectly correct use of "for" as a 
>> coordinating conjunction. [1] It may come across as a bit 
>> formal or old-fashioned, though—in normal speech, you'd 
>> usually use "since".
>>
>> [1] https://writing.wisc.edu/handbook/grammarpunct/coordconj/
>
> Interesting, since English is not my first language, if in that 
> sentence instead of "for" there was the word "since", I 
> wouldn't have been bothered, but since it was the first time I 
> saw the usage of "for" in that way, I found awkward.
>
> After that I even look into a translator which gave the same 
> translation with "since" and "for" in that sentence.
>
> Well living and learning. :)
>
> Matheus.

And this is 'Chaos' for us, poor ESL people ...

http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html

:-P