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Roman wrote:Pour qu'est-ce que vous utilisez l'Internet?
is really bad French. It almost looks like <<Pourquoi utilisez-vous l'internet?>> if you wanted to phrase it in a strange nonsensical way. He or she* might also have meant <<Qu'est que vous utilisez l'internet pour?>>, it's kind of hard to tell.

*I'm no sexist
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smiley_cow wrote:
Roman wrote:Pour qu'est-ce que vous utilisez l'Internet?
is really bad French. It almost looks like <<Pourquoi utilisez-vous l'internet?>> if you wanted to phrase it in a strange nonsensical way. He or she* might also have meant <<Qu'est que vous utilisez l'internet pour?>>, it's kind of hard to tell.

*I'm no sexist
He.

And "Qu'est que vous utilisez l'internet pour?" is definitely incorrect, seeing as French sentences cannot end on a preposition. Your first "correction" is one way of saying it, but why would I simplify it? It's French, not a workhorse language fabled for efficiency.

I was writing "Pour quoi est-ce que vous utilisez l'Internet?" with an added liaison at the beginning, because liaison is cool and underused.

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I'm going to take a shot in the dark here and say that French is not your first language.
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Au contraire, mon ami. C'est un des premiers langages que j'ai appris. Troisième langue que j'ai, je crois.

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Roman wrote:Pour qu'est-ce que vous utilisez l'Internet?
is definitely really bad French.

(hint: you never get a choice in French on what words you can contract and what ones you can't.)

Also <<pourquoi>> is one word.
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Well it wasn't your "first", so I declare it a successful guess regardless.
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My guesses are always successful. I'm just incredibly lucky.
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Stop being trolled guys
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But it hurts so good!
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I'm not even reading his posts their so boring. I just read everyone elses reply.
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I find it interesting!

No wait, the other thing; tedious.
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Felstaff wrote:I find it interesting!

No wait, the other thing; tedious.
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She keeps them in a little tin under her bed. It smells of Christmas and biscuits, and other things she’s too old to remember now.
Brittle fingers trap them inside with a relentless force, sealing them away, because she needs them.
It’s all she has; promises that stink of biscuits and Christmas.
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:cry:
Police said they spent some time working out if they could charge the man with being armed with a weapon, as technically he was armed with part of a fish.

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I was being darkly amused by the irony, but if you want to sad face it up, go right ahead.
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