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In Canada there's only one country you can come here from and be considered an ex-pat. It's the United States. Everyone else is an immigrant.
 
My brother was in Vancouver recently visiting a couple of his friends who work for Google. They have no intention assimilating, work out a contract for few years, then get back. So in your legal talk these are immigrants too? Again by hunch and not by my heavily absent linguistic expertise, I would be hesitant to label someone an immigrant if it's already a temporary arrangement from the start.
 
Yeah, "just" work permit, that category somehow flew over my head...
 
"Guest Worker" is used, but in the U.S it is rare, even though most "immigrants" are exactly that.
 
Witness the lingual superiority of purebreed Serbocroatian over peasant English

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If "Sportski Kurac" was a real shop, the usage of grammatical cases in everyday discussion around it would be something special.
 
All native speakers of English, is it common to say, "wanna come with?" instead of "do you want to come with me" in slang?
 
I've heard that often. I don't think I say it though.

EDIT: literally as I moved from my computer to my phone I get a text that ends with "want to come with?" :D
 
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