Thank you for this post!
It is long past time that members stopped picking on people who are making the effort to deal with a language that is very easy to learn.
I refer of course to English, which has any number of hard and fast rules, except when it doesn't.
My $.02.
FTFY. It is long past time that members stopped picking on people who are making the effort to deal with a language that is very easy to learn.
I refer of course to English, which has any number of hard and fast rules, except when it doesn't.
My $.02.
Wrongo, Boyo!
English is a seventy-five carat, gold-plated bitch to learn!
Most primary speakers don't know the rules, much less follow them; the misuse of the apostrophe being one error wich I find most annoying, not to mention the decline of the subjunctive!
Here is an example which typifies the difficulty of English:
To.
Too.
Two.
Here's another:
Won.
One.
How about:
Die.
Dye.
The list goes on.........................
And as far as things go, I see lots of folks around here trying to learn and use English but damned few native English speakers trying to use anyone else's language....................
The Ugly American at work?
My $.02.