After hearing people saying things like "Oh, this thread is great fun" and so on and so forth for some time now, I finally checked it out, and it is fun! I love to complain about, and correct people's spelling
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I find it more than a little embarrassing, not to mention surreal, when an English Downer proves to be worse at speaking English than, for example, a German or a Swede. Have these would-be dyslexics no shame?
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True, entirely true. When I misspell something I usually discover it long before I post my reply, and I don't just add (sp)? after it. I'm Norwegian and only started learing English three, almost four, years ago! We were supposed to have English from fifth grade, but our teachers were so bad we didn't learn anything. And I'm often much better at spelling than English Downers. Me, a child of the SMS-generation.. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img]
As for the Bush discussion, I just want to tell you this: In Norway we have a brilliant cartoon called Nemi (look at my avatar). In one of the classic Nemi cartoons Nemi comments that she thinks Douglas Adams writes Bush's speeches. Anyone that have read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will know that that's meant as an insult... Not to Adams I mean, you might have noticed that I'm a big fan of him..
[ November 02, 2002: Message edited by: vanwalossien ]