[Gllug] rma rejected + the worst grammer +ever+

[Martin A. Brooks]

Dylan wrote:
> Actually, restrictive (and non-restrictive) relative clauses in English 
> are perfectly acceptable with or without the relativising subordinator. 
> If you want to be pedantic, though, "which" is the (most) correct for 
> an inanimate referent.

The last post I make on this thread, because it looks like it's going to 
go Godwinwards.

I'm detest people who complain about the grammar, spelling and diction 
of people who are not communicating in their native language.  I am 
utterly ashamed that, as a race, the English tend to know exactly one 
language and simply assume that speaking more loudly or more slowly is 
an acceptable compromise.

I speak English poorly, I speak French abysmally, my German is 
laughable, my Polish is side-splittingly inadequate, to say I speak 
"restaurant Spanish" is an exercise in overextended semantics.

The fact someone manages to get their point across to you in their 
non-native language is something to be celebrated, not something for 
which you should pour copious amount of salt onto for every missing 
syntactic sugar crystal.  They may or may not be wrong, the fact you 
understood means their communication attempt was successful.






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