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[danky]

Dunt no wot yoo lot are talking bout cos it dunt mater as long as yoo comuneicate.
Personel reelationships ar moor importent than eny langwidge
Sounds lick snobberie to me yoo lode of m*lakers.

[Svetlana]

If you read newspapers from some of the 'ex-British Empire' countiries, such as India, they often use an old fashioned English, from the last century, with words that are no longer used elsewhere in the world.

Lana

[kafenes]

Dunt no wot yoo lot are talking bout cos it dunt mater as long as yoo comuneicate.
Personel reelationships ar moor importent than eny langwidge
Sounds lick snobberie to me yoo lode of m*lakers.

Sorry. English only on this forum please.

[Me Ed]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

Without dispute, English is the Global communication language for Business; especially via the Internet.

So, why are the UK Brits the last to learn ENGLISH?

Asians can teach them a thing or two about pronouns and adjectives ...

here she goes again, miss boring no personality slating again.
If the english language is so bad why do you speak it? if english have not learnt english, how do you communicate with them? Why dont you start a thread where it doesnt involve you having to slag people off?
why do you seem so bitter? why do you have to appear vindictive?
You would not be made very welcome in the UK with the attitude you have surrounding your bitter ora.

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

NOT interesting! and no confusion, only for those who admit they are not briiliant with THEIR english however start threads about English learning THEIR English. We know our english so THERE you go, but the people who admit once again they are not brilliant at it, well THEY'RE just..........

[CBBB]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

Is this a colloquialism?

[Me Ed]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

Is this a colloquialism?

A hangover.

[baby-come-fly-with-me]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

Is this a colloquialism?

it is quite familiar and its a bloody english lesson

[Me Ed]

Mainly because you probably learnt and speak text book English, where as real English has some heavy regional influences, just as Greek, and is how languages develop.

We're discussing written grammar not accents or idiomatic terms. Whichever region you are affiliated to, the same rules apply to the written form of English. It's back to simply using "its" and "it's" and "there" and "their" and "your" and "you're", I guess.

I don't want to be pedantic. So, I'm not referring to the odd misspelling of a word, which we all make, or the occasional omission of an apostrophe. It's the systemic carelessness, even ignorance to what is a beautiful language, which drives me potty. Especially since the main culprits are the Brits who are supposedly wealthy enough to reside over here, with multiple homes and businesses, and really could do with spending some of their "wealth" on educating themselves before they corrupt English for the rest of us.

Anyway ... my rant is over.

Oracle, this is turning into an interesting debate.

In the evolution of the English language, there is an ongoing debate that the dropping of the apostraphe may altogether may become common parlance. Good thing, bad thing? Who knows?

There is also confusion between "their" and "they're", but who knows if this may even evolve to simply "there" in the next hundred years.

In written Greek, not too long ago, there used to be a variety of inflections above the letters including " and ~.

These appear to have all been eradicated - Ignorance or evolution? Evolution.

As for the pronounciation of the letter H (aitch vs haitch) ...

Is this a colloquialism?

it is quite familiar and its a bloody english lesson

I think you will find it's English (capital E), there's your lesson for the day.