[Gllug] Monthly GLLUG grammar report (Seriously OT now!)

[Ivan Virgili]

At 28/11/02 17:10 +0000, Simon Stewart wrote:
>>Me too, but if I was going to sue the people who "taught" me grammar
>>would be quite a way down on my lists of complaints.

Hello there...
Just a quick presentation... My name is Ivan and I am Italian (from Rome).
I have been living in London for 2 years and I am married to a fantastic 
British girl !!!
I am a real Linux newbie (2 weeks - I had installed it 4 years ago, but I 
had to give up for many reasons).
I have a very good esperience with hardware and software and with all 
Bill's OS (from DOS to XP)..

Unfortunately in UK, generally speaking, grammar is not thought properly.
In Italy, or France for ex., grammar is thought during your entire school 
carreer.
This makes much easier for us to learn foreign languages, because we know 
what an adjective, a adverb, etc. is.
If British people don't know their own grammar, then it becomes even more 
difficult for them to learn a foreign language like French/Italian, where 
the grammar is much more difficult than the English one.

At the same time, English is used improperly by loads of foreigners (myself 
included), who makes things even worse (I am sure I made loads of mistakes 
writing this email). We mispell, change the order of the words while 
speaking/writing (just translating from our languages), ect.
English is the language of the world and this is good and bad at the same time.
Good because it allows many people from different countries to communicate; 
bad because one day it will probably not be English anymore 
(correct/standard English).

Ciao... Ivan 



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