To Reason Why
There’s more than one way to ask why. How come? What for?
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Episode Notes
Both How come? and What for? can be used to ask why, but native English speakers often employ them in subtly different ways. There’s a similar distinction in Russian, which has more than one word for why, depending on the context.
Podcast production by Mike Vuolo.