[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report

[Dave Cridland [Home]]

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 10:20:48 -0000
"Daniel Andersson" <daniel at septum.org> wrote:

> yepp, and the even scarier bit is that i'm swedish and i sort-of often find
> myself writing (and sometimes speaking) better and more correct english than
> british people

Ah, but that is, I think, a known factor - people who learn a foreign
language usually tend to speak it more correctly then a native speaker.

Learning the grammer of your own native language is significantly
harder, I think, than learning the grammer of a foreign one. I've no
idea how many irregular verbs there are in English, although I'm told
there are more than Spanish, for instance.

On the other hand, I know how to form verbs in Spanish (or used to,
anyway), but tend to have to struggle a bit to remember which
classification a verb fits in. Whereas in English I don't have to think
about it, even though we have, apparently, many more irregular verbs to
deal with anyway.

Dave.

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