oagersnap
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No it doesn't.
Learn english thread to teach lesson jabbering foreigners
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No it doesn't.
aneeshm
Deity
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.
Trajan12
Deity
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.
Fancy schmamcy showoff.
nonconformist
Miserable
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.
No smilies at the end of sentences.
Erik Mesoy
Core Tester / Intern
That is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.
The term "English class" may also be used, or "English lessons were the worst lessons for me".
"Current" is properly used to refer to time, not ordinality, but this should not be considered a correction, merely the result of a search for expressions that could possibly be considered to in any way deviate from the norm, said search possibly being overly zealous.aneeshm said:
angeleyes
mood indigo
Thanks, till now you're the only one taking me seriously!
Rossiya
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That is the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.
Damn right.
JonnyB
Workaholic
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Please inform me as to the reasoning behind your disapproval of my linguistic exercise.
I am merely requesting that my posts be copied and improved upon so that I may continue to advance my mastery of the English language.
The desire to better oneself is not something one should feel embarassment towards.
TheBladeRoden
Deity
Fixed version: There are to be no prepositions at the ends of sentences.
Rossiya
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The fixed version of your piss-taking correction is that your fixed version is "There are to be no prepositions at the end of sentences."
Sophie 378
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Does the bad writing of foreigners irritate you?
- or - Are you irritated by the bad writing of foreigners?
- or - Does the bad way that foreigners write irritate you?
- or - Do foreigners who write badly irritate you?
Or do you only want to teach them a better way to write the beautiful English language?
- or - Or, do you only want to teach them to write better, in the beautiful English language?
Copy their bad "English" writing, and teach them how you would write it.
Please copy and improve! They may thank you for it.
I'm happy to help - if this is helpful to you, I'll continue. Even if your use of the language isn't perfect, I congratulate you on your spelling and admire your wish to improve!
TheBladeRoden
Deity
^^^
I call.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
No, engilsh is nnot the the exact stuff good I al like at,, but i injoying psoting no forrums (especiaii thos forms in in engilsh are wass to poepe frpm spek engilsh, liek u)!
Oh, and BTW, I was just kidding.
That's news for me! I thought a sentence ending with a preposition was perfectly correct, I actually learned that prepositions at the end of words are a characteristic of English. (something that you should be proud of 
)
Oh, and BTW, I was just kidding.
Really?chrisrossi said:
That's news for me! I thought a sentence ending with a preposition was perfectly correct, I actually learned that prepositions at the end of words are a characteristic of English. (something that you should be proud of )
oagersnap
Emperor
Who invented that stupid rule? "There is nothing to be ashamed of" makes as much sense as "There is nothing of which to be ashamed", and it's shorter.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Good question, so saying: "googling is frowned upon" (real sentence from a CFCer) is not correct?
Tomoyo
Fate
It is grammatically correct in English to end a sentence with a preposition some/most of the time. The reason most people think it's not is because some priest from way back when noted that, in Latin, one could never end a sentence with a preposition, and he assumed that the same was true in English.
If you wanted to rephrase "Googling is frowned upon" without ending it in a preposition, you would say "Googling is that upon which it is frowned", which is just silly. As someone quoted Winston Churchill earlier in this thread, "This is the type of nonsense up with which I will not put."
If you wanted to rephrase "Googling is frowned upon" without ending it in a preposition, you would say "Googling is that upon which it is frowned", which is just silly. As someone quoted Winston Churchill earlier in this thread, "This is the type of nonsense up with which I will not put."
Rossiya
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I know, it really is stupid. I never bother to stick to the rule, most of the time it makes you sound like Elizabeth Windsor.
