To be perfectly fair, then I get really happy about people who has a good grasp on (at ?) the English language, and knows how to write it properly, whether it is the American flavour, or the British English language. As long you do not go totally "hip hop(ish)/ghetto" on me, when it comes to certain "hip hop" songs, I am sorry if I offend any one with that statement, but it really does irk me, when I hear something so bloody outrageous, that you would call the English grammar (in the songs) "compretely broken" in worse ways than "Engrish". But perhaps I am stereo typing too much, or should I say generalising a lot here, since there are probably songs in other musical genres other than hip hop , that some times fucks up the English grammar more than I personally will or can do. And if any one feels that I am racist in my comment, then no that was definitely NOT my intention AT ALL.
I recall some years back someone from Canada wrote into Nintendo Power and asked why the Game Boy Color wasn't spelled "Game Boy Colour". The reason being that Nintendo named it one way and marketed it that way. The other obvious reason is that by being forced to have multiple lines churning out different cases the cost for production in those countries would go up. The only English I can't tolerate is ghetto culture really. Was watching a documentary on gangs in the US; one of interviewees threw the word "nigga" out at least once per sentence in place of what might be punctuation. I believe he was aiming for a question mark. Regardless he looked like an idiot and likely didn't have an education beyond the 6th grade explaining why he was in a gang. IIRC he was shot and killed about a week after they filmed him. For more reading on this topic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Ebonics_controversy
I've always wondered whether someone would take offence at getting their English corrected. When you correct a native speaker's English, they have the tendency to be offended (Like: "I know how to speak my own language, asshole!"). I'm starting on my German again and if I were speaking or writing with had grammatical errors (even if I still got the point across efficiently and without questions), I'd want someone to correct me. So those non-native speakers: do you welcome corrections as long as they're not timed badly? (The reason I thought of this is because WolverineDK's post has a handful of little things wrong with it)
alecjahn: as I have previously in many older posts of mine, I welcome corrections of my English writing Because I aim to be "perfect" when it comes to the English language, since I really love the English language. And if some body took a serious look on my older posts, and in my older threads about the English language. Then I take pride in writing a proper English, and it irks me when I see or hear native English speakers fucking up the lovely language known as English, as I also have mentioned before. I understand , if people have not really been speaking English in many years because of the location they are living in, or if they have spelling disabilities /problems such as dyslexia and other related forms of this criteria, since there is a whole related group of these things, such as dyscalculia (which my own father has besides dyslexia) and those are recognised by the UN under ICD9 and ICD10 among others. But besides that, then I really hate real lazy bums that just fucks around with the spelling. Even though I am pretty damn good when it comes to spelling I use a British English spelling plugin in my firefox. Even though it may sound stupid, but I believe I have some mixture myself of both dyscalculia and dyslexia, but in a rather very light form.
No we don't. In fact, American English is more correct than British English. When Britain and her former colony became separate, American English conserved the language of the time (although with variations in regional dialects) and British English "evolved", or rather had more impact from the noble class over the years. The same can be seen in other former colonies, for example in the Swedish speaking parts of Finland.
Dead body's or body's in general that have serious looks at your older posts? I hope the latter otherwise we might have a zombie infection spreading on the board :thumbsup:
American English is no where near a more correct form of English then British English, both languages have evolved and some worse then others. The last time I spoke to some one in America, I ended their sentence with 17, which was the number of times they said "Like" in the sentence (You know like, this game, like, is excellent like, etc...)! This for example being borrowed from the Spanish language brought over from Mexicans speaking English... The language evolves all the time, look at a BBC TV program from the 40s or 60s or 80s and you'd be surprised on how much it has changed, I am sure if you did the same in the US it would as pronounced. On the plus side, I found that if one speaks in a polite form of British English to the ladies then it is much easier to get them into the bedroom for some how's your father. One thing I can't stand about the American and Australian forms of English are the hard A's as in Dar-ta rather then Day-ta for Data, it's cringeworthy. I also know a guy that keeps getting into trouble at his English school as he keeps teaching kids the British pronoucation and spellings of words rather then the American English version of the words. They would sack him, but his students keep getting the highest marks on their tests so they don't.
