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Why not?

It's not an attack on him personally, but ...why not?

Read the rest of his posts. He clearly has a very high level of English, and can state his ideas and opinions clearly. Yet he fell into the same shit-English trap that his friends are all in.

My complaint isn't that someone made a mistake. My complaint is that someone who knows better couldn't give a fuck to say it correctly.

This is about standards, not grammar mistakes. There's no difference between someone who speaks English at his level saying "my friend and me", and an experienced programmer not error handling his code because he's in a rush.

I don't point this problem out where ever I see it because I'm an anal Grammar Nazi; I point it out because it is slipshod, lazy, I-don't-give-a-shit attitude. It is becoming the norm among people who grew up on chat and it is garbage.

I stand by my statement; ESL students learn this in their second week of English class, and hotloo says it because he is copying his native friends on chat who speak like crap, and now he is picking up all their bad habits as well.

So hotloo, do yourself a favor and take this to heart. Some day you'll be in a suit and tie, in front of people who care about this sort of thing, and it will win land you a contract or a good job or something important you want.




Your own writing style is hardly something to use as an example of correct English. Your usage and placement of ellipsis and commas is fairly non-standard, you repeatedly use semicolons where a full stop would seem more suitable and the liberal use of dashes to form compound swear words seems a somewhat crude and overused device. On first impressions I would say that it is you who gives a less professional impression through your writing and you really are in no position to scream so shrilly from such a very high and ridiculous horse.


Why don't we just take this sidebar to Tele's native tongue, Mongolian?




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