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2016-06-02 , 13:19
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
In my first couple of year of living in the UK, I begged people to correct my English. Yet very few did. Gerbick is doing Dave a great service.
You mean English is not your mother tongue? I'd never have guessed!

I have a similar problem here in that almost no one corrects my Spanish unless I ask them to, so I keep making the same mistakes over and over. I might have to use your strategy and start begging.
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#4002
You might know how to spell the words of english but Do you know the history of english and how it came to be the "world's language" and yeah no googling please.
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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
No need to beg here! It's "couple of years" not "couple of year."
Indeed. Well spotted. Although that was down to my bad virtual keyboard fingering, not my bad English. For a change.
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2016-06-02 , 18:30
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Indeed. Well spotted. Although that was down to my bad virtual keyboard fingering, not my bad English. For a change.
Don't blame the tools for your mistakes.

My bad.

Edit: Guys, let's stay on topic!
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2016-06-02 , 19:26
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
You mean English is not your mother tongue? I'd never have guessed!
Thanks for the compliment, but no. I am, as the locals say so eloquently, a bloody foreigner. And proud of it. But I've lived here for neatly 18 years so I guess something's bound to stick.

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Don't blame the tools for your mistakes.
Right. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
OTOH if you"d pay attention, you would have noticed that I was not blaming the tool but my lack of proficiency in using it.

Edit: Guys, let's stay on topic!
What is the topic nowadays? The thread title say something about countdowns, but when was the last time we counted anything here?
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#4006
I know. Why do you think I wrote my bad in the next line?

Gerbick had some countdown going not sure what happened to it. Maybe we should ask him.

Gerbick, what happened to your countdown?

https://days.to/until/uefa-european-championships

How is the UK team coming along?

Or if you don't like soccer you can countdown to the olympics.

And if you don't like sports you can countdown to DTrump enter the whites as president the choice is entirely yours.
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2016-06-02 , 21:44
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Whilst we're pointing out errors...

Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
But I've lived here for neatly 18 years so I guess something's bound to stick.
Virtual keyboard again?

Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
Guys, let's stay on topic!
We're counting down until we can reach one page of this thread with no spelling or grammar mistakes.

Originally Posted by Dave999 View Post
How is the UK team coming along?
Which one? There are 3 UK teams in Euro 2016.

And for those of us on this side of the Atlantic... only one day to go.

And yes I know it's grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with a conjunction. :P
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
And yes I know it's grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with a conjunction. :P
And prepositions are not something to end a sentence with.
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Effective communication doesn't need to follow all of the rules that would possibly apply; however misspells do tend to muddle your message. I think if we were to enforce every grammar rule, we'd have no more time for gadgets, programming or much of anything.

English is a very flawed language. English is a "mutt" language in fact. So let's just try to concentrate on helping others to remove possible obstacles in understanding what they're trying to say and mean. That's why I correct Dave. It's not to prove a point that my English is superior to his. I do it to assist him (and others) to remain easy to understand as part of this discussion forum.

Feel free to dissect the above. I know that I inevitably used something wrong. But I can only hope that my message remains clear.
 
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
Whilst we're pointing out errors...


Virtual keyboard again?


We're counting down until we can reach one page of this thread with no spelling or grammar mistakes.


Which one? There are 3 UK teams in Euro 2016.

And for those of us on this side of the Atlantic... only one day to go.

And yes I know it's grammatically incorrect to start a sentence with a conjunction. :P
Copa America starting tomorrow. Who will win?
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