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... Whoever may have originally wrote [sic] that apparently committed a typo. ....
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... Whoever may have originally wrote [sic] that apparently committed a typo. ....
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.
Ambitious ImbecilesBecause 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 ImbecilesBecause 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 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.
Ambitious ImbecilesBecause 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 reminds [sic] of the unstructured mess Low-IQ college graduates make,....
I guess well have to take your word for that. LOLWell, 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.
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.
Please list all candidates. Foreigners are not counted, I want to speak pure American English
We kinda touched on this before but my language is very idiosyncratic.
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~
Oh sister.Oh brother.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.
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.
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.A Diploma Is a Participation TrophyCold War Empowers the CaliphateComrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??
Putin is our Czar. That's all.
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
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."
nit ENTIRELY free, I suspect. There will be a price to pay...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
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?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.A Diploma Is a Participation TrophyCold War Empowers the CaliphateComrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??
Putin is our Czar. That's all.
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
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."
nit ENTIRELY free, I suspect. There will be a price to pay...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
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?
Be careful~
Do you think that it may be risky? There is the ocean between us and Putin will always defend me
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.A Diploma Is a Participation TrophyCold War Empowers the CaliphateComrade Johnson , is Putin narcissistic in your opinion or just ruthless ??
Putin is our Czar. That's all.
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
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."