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Duolingo is so much more fun if you imagine all the sentences being written by someone with a serious grudge.
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"Normal people are sleeping at this hour". Marked as wrong, but is it? English is my 2nd language, so not sure about this
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English is my first language and I wrote that too. Perfectly ok in my opinion.
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I agree. I wrote, "Normal people sleep at that hour" and it was marked as incorrect. I reported it.
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No, it's in the accusative. в + accusative is used for specific times (someone might be able to phrase that better...)
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normal people sleep now - this is the meaning of the sentence, as if an angry mom would tell her child after catching him on his phone in bed at 3am. AnD iT Is nOT aCcePTeD
I agree. It's marginal English, but this is a Russian course and I think literal translations should be accepted if they indicate the Russian was correctly understood, and the English is at least comprehensible. BTW, "normal people are sleeping now" is better but still literal.
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"Normal people sleep at this hour" - rejected. Is there anything wrong with it?
"Normal people are sleeping on this time” marked wrong because of “at” makes me think that there are minor details that matter more to English than to Russian. It would be cool to have more flexibility on this, maybe with the already existent “Almost correct” acceptance.
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Prepositions are tricky in most languages. "On this time" is just bad English. It's like translating the Spanish "Yo sueño con la mujer" as "I dream with the woman" instead of "I dream about the woman."
