From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Thu May 16 2002 - 08:14:22 MDT
On 2002.05.16, Olga Bourlin <fauxever@sprynet.com> wrote:
> On a related matter: Am I wrong in my observation that in the USA many even
> "educated" adults can't even speak American-English very well?
Even fewer can write or read it. It is appalling that people can
make it out of school and not be able to form proper sentences or
even spell.
I think it has to do with the fact that it is so trivially easy
to "get by" with a very limited vocabulary in English (which is
why America is so great for foreigners) so that the "natives"
have no real incentive to learn. The only nuisance is the
excessive use of idiomatic expressions in English which fouls
up non-native speakers.
-- Dossy
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folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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