Praise the Lord!
How Did You Get Your Guarantia From A Friend?
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Praise the Lord!
I wish my poor parents from Congo, had money to send me to a good school in my childhood days. I would have at least learnt some English and not be ridiculed for my English by Italians on this forum! Sigh!
Girino
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Nobody is making fun of you, we can just read you, and so we hyper-analyze what you write and how you write it.
For example, you wrote learnt (BrE) and not learned (AmE), so I am ruling out the US as your home or foster country.
A few posts ago your wrote other's members English skills, but you write a pretty articulate English, and I am sure you have been speaking it for a long time.
I have no formal education in English, I am just passionate about it. For example, it is spot an Indian English speaker down a mile (even in writing!).
I wrote :-
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[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]"giving marks on others English"[/background]
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[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]and not [/background]
"other's members"
And hey..this is just a Bl*&dy forum. Do I really care what I write, how many spelling mistakes I do. What are the mistakes I do. No..I don't ! Maybe you do!I come here for just some fun reading and writing. I do not come here to give a English exam with a Italian teacher to grade me.
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[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]I dont care if I write good /bad /poor/substandard English or American/British/ Congolese/Indian/Sri Lankan /Bhutanese/Carribean/Nigerian/Filipino English.[/background]
[background=rgb(252, 252, 252)]Neither I ever called myself American or British or Australian or New Zealander on this forum. I have told everyone I am from Congo. You don't want to believe that. Its fine. [/background]
Go and spend time with your newly married husband ( I hope your marriage is not on the rocks or was it a marriage of convenience to get the DNI???), than trying to be snoopy about other members personal matters or their nationalities or origins . And if they are not forthcoming, calling them criminals or making fun of their English to show how smart or superior you are.
One big loser, you are, who gets a high by making fun of others and calling fellow members criminals.. on a forum.
I do have to say it's very odd the amount of analysis of Ceviche's writing. Who cares? Learnt or learned? There are a million english schools around the world that follow the American rather than British standard, so really I don't know why this is so important. Most people wouldn't give it half a thought on this forum as after all it's just a forum and whether someone is writing learned or learnt I understand what they meant.
It's not a linguistics board, it's an expat board. I've seen many a grammar mistake on here, and committed many myself, often just due to quick pace or more likely, autocorrect.
However if he truly were from Congo-Kinshasa he'd likely be a french native speaker, and probably would have some grasp of Swahili.
It's not a linguistics board, it's an expat board. I've seen many a grammar mistake on here, and committed many myself, often just due to quick pace or more likely, autocorrect.
However if he truly were from Congo-Kinshasa he'd likely be a french native speaker, and probably would have some grasp of Swahili.
Thanks Syngirl.
This means a lot to me.
Sick and tired of this Italian woman analyzing my English on a dailllyyyy basis!
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If I am attacked more on this forum, I will start with a fresh id as a "new comer" with zero posts. To hell with this id...and all the analysis...
Absolutely.
Girino
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Can you please elaborate? I don't understand what "changed her handle" means, nor what subterfuge and deception I played. If you mean that I changed my nickname, that's true, but what's your point? Anybody who changes his nickname or avatar is a shady figure? Hello, this is the Internet, you don't go by your DNI and ID photo.
Again, I was just trying to get a grasp of the curious character of Ceviche and fooling around, not giving a lecture in English (why would I? I am not even a native English speaker and this is no language contest.). Hybrid Ambassador and dontmindme, played along in this thread and others. I don't understand what is all this fuss about.
I didn't started rambling on the forum about Ceviche's or Hybrid Ambassador's comments about my being tall or married or having a brain (what? being a woman means I should have no brain?).
Relax, folks!
PS: thank you for the very classy comment about how I got married just to get a DNI. That was really the height of this conversation.
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This started as a thread about how to get a guarantee to rent an apt. Now it seems to have become a thread about being critical of
other members' English. Wierd that some people have time for such silliness. I do not care where anyone was born, has lived, or is living.
That is none of my business , nor should it be a topic on this thread. Some people seem to have too much free time and are too eager to critizise. Shame! English is my native language and I still make mistakes and am not proud of that. Also having had a CVA did not help.
other members' English. Wierd that some people have time for such silliness. I do not care where anyone was born, has lived, or is living.
That is none of my business , nor should it be a topic on this thread. Some people seem to have too much free time and are too eager to critizise. Shame! English is my native language and I still make mistakes and am not proud of that. Also having had a CVA did not help.
