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Aye, in England. Not up here in the highland northern lands.

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Fuck. Right. The. Fuck. Off. You. Fucks.
 
Well Scotland has January 2nd as a holiday and I think St. Andrew's Day too. English people don't acknowledge St. George's Day for some reason.
 
Flash, you've seen some of the native English speakers around here. How do you think I feel every single day?

The best grammatical skills on this forum (and on many others I have visited over the years) almost uniquely belongs to non-native speakers.
 
NP may have his glass doors but I just rode my bicycle into a parked car. I was deep in thought about how good I'm feeling after gym and food, and then it happened. The driver was inside as well. He came out, asking if I'm crazy. I was lucky to have crashed right next to the tyre so that my front wheel got caught in the cavity and didn't cause any noticeable damage. However, my left shoulder is getting more painful by the minute.
 
Go see a doctor if the pain doesn't go down. You may have damaged something in there, and the sooner you get it looked at, the better.
 
Yeah and the doctor will probably send you to the x-ray at once so you'll get to know whether there's any damage in there
 
The Flash said:
If people could write a document in their native language without making a grammar mistake every sentence, it'd be wonderful.
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I'd always wondered if this was more a problem with English speakers than anything. The average social media user seems to have completely given up, and gets very shirty if asked to use proper grammar and spelling. They can't all be dyslexic, surely?
 
Social media is not serious at least. Talking about approved construction project documents, cooperative projects by big companies and stuff here. The grammar mistakes are one thing, some parts genuinely don't even make sense. Broken syntax, awkward punctuation, everything.
 
I'm just using social media as the worst example. So many people online have terrible spelling and grammar, and don't use any punctuation. If anyone comments on that, they very often say that's just how they write and they can't do it any other way. But surely these people have jobs and do need to write from time to time? If they all genuinely have literacy problems, that's a shocking percentage of the population.
 
Social media grammar almost seems to be evolving into its own language. And people can learn multiple languages - this doesn't bother me so much. What bothers me is that people seem to be losing the ability to read full-form writing/text, etc, and comprehend it.
 
LooseCannon said:
What bothers me is that people seem to be losing the ability to read full-form writing/text, etc, and comprehend it.
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That's exactly what I mean. I'm not talking about people writing in text speak or Twitter shorthand. It's those who take part in quite serious discussions and write long posts in FB groups, but the entire thing will be in short incomplete clauses, without punctuation, and with bizarre or phonetic spelling. It's as if they can't actually write at all. Users get very angry if the group asks them to write in full.
 
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