Who's English is the best here?

[Unkotare]

... Whoever may have originally wrote [sic] that apparently committed a typo. ....

Yeah...*ahem* ...

 

[Pogo]

Because English grammar is what is is, there is no call for inventing distinct second-person plural personal pronouns

Four is in one sentence is ungrammatical

That depends on what the use of is is. Whoever originally wrote that apparently committed a typo. A fine catch. You have an eye for detail.

In my childhood we used to chant

"that that is, is; that that is not, is not"

---- which led to the improvisation,

"that that is is is that that that that is not is not".

Follow that? The italics are critical.

The logic is similar to the case where Country A threatens Country B with a "missile" .......... Coutry B responds with an "anti-missile missile", and Country A counters with an "anti-anti-missile-missile missile".

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Because English grammar is what is is, there is no call for inventing distinct second-person plural personal pronouns

Four is in one sentence is ungrammatical

Ambitious Imbeciles

That reminds of the unstructured mess Low-IQ college graduates make, which is repeated all over television and radio: "What the problem is, is (globalism)." It should be simply "The problem is globalism." Stupid English is contagious, especially when spoken by frauds we are told to look up to as role models for correct English.

 

[Pogo]

Because English grammar is what is is, there is no call for inventing distinct second-person plural personal pronouns

Four is in one sentence is ungrammatical

Ambitious Imbeciles

That reminds of the unstructured mess Low-IQ college graduates make, which is repeated all over television and radio: "What the problem is, is (globalism)." It should be simply "The problem is globalism." Stupid English is contagious, especially when spoken by frauds we are told to look up to as role models for correct English.

I know what you mean -- speakers using the word is as a comma. Drives me batty. But your example there is actually grammatical. I think you mean more like, "the nature of racism is...[pause]. is that...". It's amazing to hear a person speak apparently without hearing his own voice.

I for one depend on it --- if I measure a space as "30 by 25" and need to remember it, rather than write it down I just say it out loud. The sound of my own voice then imprints. No need for pad and pen.

 

[Unkotare]

Because English grammar is what is is, there is no call for inventing distinct second-person plural personal pronouns

Four is in one sentence is ungrammatical

Ambitious Imbeciles

That reminds [sic] of the unstructured mess Low-IQ college graduates make,....

Reminds who?

 

[usmbguest5318]

Well, let me be clear. I suggest you not aim to emulate my English as you see it here. I suggest that not because my English is poor, for it's not. It's that my writing style and colloquial English generally is at a writing level that requires readers to have a very strong command of English. I pretty nearly always here, as when I speak to people in person, write to a 10th-12th grade reading level, which is to say I use all the modes of verb conjugation, and I frequently compose compound and complex sentences. It'd be a Herculean task for a beginning learner to take on mastering all that at once and without formal guidance. The structure of my prose pretty well adheres to standard grammar rules, save for my typos, but the style is colloquial; thus it's not what one should emulate when learning the language.

Yes, but I am not the one.

I guess well have to take your word for that. LOL

 

[Comrade Johnson]

OK, as an experiment I chose five people (no trouble for others – you'll be the next ones):

koshergrl
Pogo
RodISHI
Xelor
yiostheoy

I will study their posts and then use their words and expressions in mine.

 

[Pogo]

OK, as an experiment I chose five people (no trouble for others – you'll be the next ones):

koshergrl
Pogo
RodISHI
Xelor
yiostheoy

I will study their posts and then use their words and expressions in mine.

We kinda touched on this before but my language is very idiosyncratic. (e.g. "kinda"). Creative approach to language is in fact one reason I chose the name "Pogo". So as I pointed out in my intro thread when I first got here, misspellings, disgrammatification and just plain made-up words will be intentional, whether the reader gets the joke or not.

On the other hand one must have a comfortable fluidity in the language in the first place in order to take such liberties with it, so ---- there it is, innit.

 

[Toro]

Please list all candidates. Foreigners are not counted, I want to speak pure American English

Anybody speaking eubonics

 

[Comrade Johnson]

We kinda touched on this before but my language is very idiosyncratic.

So my English will be extremely idiosyncratic too And five times better than anybody's from the list taken separately.

 

[Unkotare]

We kinda touched on this before but my language is very idiosyncratic.

So my English will be extremely idiosyncratic too And five times better than anybody's from the list taken separately.

Be careful~

 

[Comrade Johnson]

Be careful~

Do you think that it may be risky? There is the ocean between us and Putin will always defend me

 

[danielpalos]

I did not fully understand the English language until I underwent an intensive six month course in German at the Defense Language Institute. I do not consider myself an expert as English is a living language that grows and changes every day.

Experts cite all sorts of rules. In my 77 (nearly 78) years, I've learned the most important rule - What was yesterday may not be is today.

Oh brother.
Words do mean something, however. And it does matter how you use them. If you can't agree on the language and the definitions of things, then you have chaos and a total breakdown of communication and understanding.

Which is pretty much what we have today. There is English.

Then there is progressive gobbledygook, which presents an alternate reality using the same words.

Oh sister.

In modern times, we can resort to dictionaries. Only the right wing, has a problem with dictionaries, unless it is about socialism.

 

[koshergrl]

Comrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??

Putin is our Czar. That's all.

Cold War Empowers the Caliphate

Putin is the greatest Russian since Czar Peter the Great, who was also a little rough along the edges.

I think that Putin doesn't torture his rivals by himself as Peter did

But Putin is not the point, good English is the point

A Diploma Is a Participation Trophy

The posters are avoiding that issue because even our college graduates have a 11-year-old's knowledge of English grammar. They are all afraid to reveal that their education is a fraud. If students aren't paid for their grades, they aren't worth anything and shouldn't be given white-collar jobs. Our English teachers are too lazy to teach it. For decades, they've used the excuse, "You don't have to study this. You can pick it up easily by listening to the way educated speakers speak."

they aren't afraid to teach it, they aren't allowed to. Language arts is a commie propaganda class...kids read filth and garbage and are taught all about feelings...but not sentence structure or how to craft a point of view.

 

[koshergrl]

OK, I think we have had enough time for the registration. On the weekend I will read it carefully and we'll have the poll. The winner will get 1000 rubles a month for lessons with me. And of, course Pogo promised to do it for free

nit ENTIRELY free, I suspect. There will be a price to pay...

 

[Nosmo King]

Comrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??

Putin is our Czar. That's all.

Cold War Empowers the Caliphate

Putin is the greatest Russian since Czar Peter the Great, who was also a little rough along the edges.

I think that Putin doesn't torture his rivals by himself as Peter did

But Putin is not the point, good English is the point

A Diploma Is a Participation Trophy

The posters are avoiding that issue because even our college graduates have a 11-year-old's knowledge of English grammar. They are all afraid to reveal that their education is a fraud. If students aren't paid for their grades, they aren't worth anything and shouldn't be given white-collar jobs. Our English teachers are too lazy to teach it. For decades, they've used the excuse, "You don't have to study this. You can pick it up easily by listening to the way educated speakers speak."

they aren't afraid to teach it, they aren't allowed to. Language arts is a commie propaganda class...kids read filth and garbage and are taught all about feelings...but not sentence structure or how to craft a point of view.

What's it like to live in a world where each and every aspect of life can be filed under one of two categories: Communism or Virtuous?

It must be very simple, appealing to simplicity and the appropriate mindset.

I might put forth my friend Foxdyre as one of the best posters usijg English here.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

OK, I think we have had enough time for the registration. On the weekend I will read it carefully and we'll have the poll. The winner will get 1000 rubles a month for lessons with me. And of, course Pogo promised to do it for free

nit ENTIRELY free, I suspect. There will be a price to pay...

OK, it will be 1000 rubles too then I am not a comminist and not a supporter of work for a kiss.

 

[Comrade Johnson]

What's it like to live in a world where each and every aspect of life can be filed under one of two categories: Communism or Virtuous?

You better ask what it is to live in a world where each and every aspect of life is under CAPITALISM as in modern Russia

 

[Unkotare]

Be careful~

Do you think that it may be risky? There is the ocean between us and Putin will always defend me

That's not what I meant.

 

[Unkotare]

Comrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??

Putin is our Czar. That's all.

Cold War Empowers the Caliphate

Putin is the greatest Russian since Czar Peter the Great, who was also a little rough along the edges.

I think that Putin doesn't torture his rivals by himself as Peter did

But Putin is not the point, good English is the point

A Diploma Is a Participation Trophy

The posters are avoiding that issue because even our college graduates have a 11-year-old's knowledge of English grammar. They are all afraid to reveal that their education is a fraud. If students aren't paid for their grades, they aren't worth anything and shouldn't be given white-collar jobs. Our English teachers are too lazy to teach it. For decades, they've used the excuse, "You don't have to study this. You can pick it up easily by listening to the way educated speakers speak."

they aren't afraid to teach it, they aren't allowed to. Language arts is a commie propaganda class...kids read filth and garbage and are taught all about feelings...but not sentence structure or how to craft a point of view.

Nonsense.