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.
Also don't forget about how we misuse words all the time. For instance...in the US, we drive on parkways and park on driveways. When we send stuff by car, we call it shipment, and when we send stuff by ship we call it cargo. Our boxing rings are squares. Quite a few and quite a lot mean the exact same thing. We call it "filling out a form" when in fact we are filling it in. We say our feet smell, and our noses run! And the worst one is we call them "apartments" when they are really all stuck together!