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Everyone I know who has immigrated to America talks some version of this.

Guestmodinfo 2mo ago
'emigrated to'. Sorry for correcting grammar. But being from one of the previous colonies, one desires to be a master of English and help others also to master it. We emigrate to a country from our own country. And other people immigrate into our country from some outside country.
- keepamovin 2mo ago
  I prefer 'migrated' for exactly that reason - strips all the annoying modifying prefixes that can trip you up. More flexible word, less radicals! ;) It's funny to me people are only discovering this about America now whereas a whole generation of 1st gen parents of current Americans discovered it in earlier waves, the tech waves, etc.
- dlcarrier 2mo ago
  It looks like "immigrated to" is now more popular in American English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%2Cemigrated+to&year_start=1970&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...), but not in British English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%2Cemigrated+to&year_start=1970&year_end=2022&corpus=en-GB&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...).
- ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
  No idea where you got those definitions. An immigrant is one who arrives and moves into a place or country. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate An emigrant is one who leaves and moves out of a place. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate This distinction is very clear and has really never been a problem for people who understand language. The English Wikipedia has somehow managed to fuck it up beyond all recognition, so congratulations! You're one of Today's Lucky 10,000!
- simiones 2mo ago
  Both "immigrated to" and "emigrated to" are correct, and mean the same thing; they just emphasize, slightly, different things.

'emigrated to'. Sorry for correcting grammar. But being from one of the previous colonies, one desires to be a master of English and help others also to master it. We emigrate to a country from our own country. And other people immigrate into our country from some outside country.

keepamovin 2mo ago
I prefer 'migrated' for exactly that reason - strips all the annoying modifying prefixes that can trip you up. More flexible word, less radicals! ;) It's funny to me people are only discovering this about America now whereas a whole generation of 1st gen parents of current Americans discovered it in earlier waves, the tech waves, etc.
dlcarrier 2mo ago
It looks like "immigrated to" is now more popular in American English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%2Cemigrated+to&year_start=1970&year_end=2022&corpus=en-US&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...), but not in British English (https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%2Cemigrated+to&year_start=1970&year_end=2022&corpus=en-GB&smoothing=3&case_insensitive=true https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=immigrated+to%...).
ButlerianJihad 2mo ago
No idea where you got those definitions. An immigrant is one who arrives and moves into a place or country. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate An emigrant is one who leaves and moves out of a place. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate This distinction is very clear and has really never been a problem for people who understand language. The English Wikipedia has somehow managed to fuck it up beyond all recognition, so congratulations! You're one of Today's Lucky 10,000!
simiones 2mo ago
Both "immigrated to" and "emigrated to" are correct, and mean the same thing; they just emphasize, slightly, different things.