Ansar
Détente avec l'été
I dont get mad when people write words in Spanish incorrectly. I actually laugh. 
I haven't had the problem had happen in English tough.
I haven't had the problem had happen in English tough.
Learn english thread to teach lesson jabbering foreigners
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IIRC, the practice appeared in the Victorian Era.
-0blivion-
Musically inclined
So this is the thread within which it is considered appropriate to satisfy the urge to reproach objurgatively?
Tomoyo
Fate
The way you say it makes it sound like you were around in the Victorian Era.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
What's objurgatively?
Winner
Diverse in Unity
angeleyes
mood indigo
I tried to imitate Borat, just as in the first post. I don't want this thread to become too serious, but i really would like it when people now and then improve my sentences here. I'm always struggling to put my english sentences together, but when people show me how to write it properly i can have a laugh (eg.post # 33)at myself and hopefully learn from it.
(I actually have gotten one poster telling me not to come back at the forum till i could spell properly
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It doesn't bother me that foreigners don't write perfectly, though I do write perfectly.
It bothers even less when someone apologizes his/her bad English. What pisses me off are Englishmen who write badly. And Americans who write badly. And everyone who write badly and are from English countries.
It bothers even less when someone apologizes his/her bad English. What pisses me off are Englishmen who write badly. And Americans who write badly. And everyone who write badly and are from English countries.
Very well. I hereby invite native English speakers to correct any mistakes they find in the current, the preceding, or the succeeding sentence. I would like them to take note of the fact that English is my third language, and thus a high proficiency (in it) should not be expected of me.
I may be wrong, but I don't think 'Very well' constitutes a sentence.
Still, you are more grammatically proficient than me so I'll shut up.
silver 2039
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Hehe, foreginers probaly know better English than me and I'm a native English speaker. Well I speak American which may or may not couint as English.
And I've been told my spelling is atrocious, but I don't really care. What is spell check in MS word for after all? These days written English is less important as is grammer. We have computers now which can correct our spelling and to an extwnt grammer for us. The only thing I need grammer for is the accursed SAT. God I hate that thing so much.
And I've been told my spelling is atrocious, but I don't really care. What is spell check in MS word for after all? These days written English is less important as is grammer. We have computers now which can correct our spelling and to an extwnt grammer for us. The only thing I need grammer for is the accursed SAT. God I hate that thing so much.
I tried to imitate Borat, just as in the first post. I don't want this thread to become too serious, but i really would like it when people now and then improve my sentences here. I'm always struggling to put my english sentences together, but when people show me how to write it properly i can have a laugh (eg.post # 33)at myself and hopefully learn from it.
(I actually have gotten one poster telling me not to come back at the forum till i could spell properly
Speeling Nazis are banned by forum rules.
Should either be a comma or a semi colon, if it is two seperate sentences that are related; I'd say though in this case a comma was warranted.
nonconformist
Miserable
That reminds me of an old joke.
So, this working class guy ends up at Oxford University, having got a scholarship, and everything.
So, on his first week, he needs to catch up with work, so he walks up to an obviously senior student.
"'Scuse me, mate, where's the Library at?"
And this senior looks down his nose, and says in an unbelievably snooty upper-class tone:
"At Oxford, we never end our sentences with a preposition"
So then guy answers:
"Sorry. Where's the library at, douchebag?"
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
lol.
punkbass2000
Des An artiste
angeleyes
mood indigo
Everybody reading something somewhere of me may improve me here if i make clear (not tiny ones) mistakes!
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Well, I'm not a native English speaker, so I don't know for sure myself:
Anybody reading any of my posts may correct me here if I make serious mistakes (not tiny ones).
Everybody, I think, should be used when you ask to be corrected by every single person that reads your posts, so you should use anyone in this context.
In the "Reading something somewhere of me" part of your phrase, words are in a very strange order and something somewhere of me could be replaced by the much simpler and clearer "any of my posts".
If you want to use the "(not tiny ones)" bracket in this form, you should put it after "mistakes", since saying "ones" referring to the word mistakes then saying the word mistakes is not correc.
I tried to make as little mistakes as possible in this post.
bathsheba666
Fast 'n Bulbous
bathsheba666
Fast 'n Bulbous
Very well. I hereby invite native English speakers to correct any mistakes they find in the current, the preceding, or the succeeding sentence. I would like them to take note of the fact that English is my third language, and thus a high proficiency (in it) should not be expected of me.
You should have used 'sentences',
unless you are only interested in errors in one of them.
You failed with 'succeeding', where 'following' would have been successful.
Succession would normally be used, for example, in the context of monarchies.
It carries the concept of supplanting, and not merely following.
I take note of your fact, so you may ignore the above.
In one sense, you are not wrong.
However, you may not be wrong, although you can be wrong.
Thus, it appears that you are wrong.
Of course, you might think that you may be wrong.
Who am I to proscribe?
@Nonconformist
