Brief PSA.

By KCDodger, in X-Wing

English is difficult, but you can understand it through tough thorough thought, though.

The reply that I had had, had been sufficient, but then this one had had the necessary coefficient. Thus task that I had had, had been completed - the reply that I had typed had been deleted!

... Had I been quicker...

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I'm Italian and I try to do my best to make my posts perfectly understandable.

If I mess something up, please excuse me.

this whole thread is based on the premises that every one here has English as their first language.... as posted above people do their best please don't be an obnoxious nob about unless you are fluent in several languages yourself.

It is usually obvious however who is and isn't a native speaker.

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Yoda simply uses German sentence structure.

An odd form of English to speak, it is, but correct it technically is.

this whole thread is based on the premises that every one here has English as their first language.... as posted above people do their best please don't be an obnoxious nob about unless you are fluent in several languages yourself.

I quite imagine that my bungling of German is properly offensive, though at times perhaps hilarious?

I'm sure no superiority is implied, merely that should you have the capacity, you should engage it. It wouldn't do to let oneself fall into a pit of verbal inequity. I myself used to be a very avid wordsmith and could probably have beaten anyone here at a spelling bee some time ago. However with advent of spellcheckers I find myself simply right clicking away my ineptitude. Now I couldn't tell you if a word was misspelled unless it was a glaring error or a simple word. Onomonapeia. See right there I'm just not sure what is wrong. I'll have to spellcheck that one now. Five years ago? Bah! But you see that's a skill I have let myself lose and all thanks to my own laziness.

The Italian fellow a few posts up? He actively is trying to make himself understood and write in a way we can all comprehend. But us native English speakers? We're too busy trying to shorten up the time it takes to do things so that we're...

... OMG BRB! Cat emerg! Coffee Factor Zero! ROFLMAO!

Get it?

K!

KK?

CYA!

I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. For all intensive purposes I think you are wrong. In an age where false morals are a diamond dozen, true virtues are a blessing in the skies. We often put our false morality on a petal stool like a bunch of pre-Madonnas, but you all seem to be taking something very valuable for granite. So I ask of you to mustard up all the strength you can because it is a doggy dog world out there. Although there is some merit to what you are saying it seems like you have a huge ship on your shoulder. In your argument you seem to throw everything in but the kids Nsync, and even though you are having a feel day with this I am here to bring you back into reality. I have a sick sense when it comes to these types of things. It is almost spooky, because I cannot turn a blonde eye to these glaring flaws in your rhetoric. I have zero taller ants when it comes to people spouting out hate in the name of moral righteousness. You just need to remember what comes around is all around, and when supply and command fails you will be the first to go. Make my words, when you get down to brass stacks it doesn't take rocket appliances to get two birds stoned at once. It's clear who makes the pants in this relationship, and sometimes you just have to swallow your prize and accept the facts. You might have to come to this conclusion through denial and error but I swear on my mother's mating name that when you put the petal to the medal you will pass with flying carpets like it’s a peach of cake.

Ouch ... reading that ... hurt.

I've got a great ideal - lets' knot half any more've this sort of thing

I've got a great ideal - lets' knot half any more've this sort of thing