Many years ago I wrote
an English Grammar for foreign learners. It made me a few bob and did
nothing to harm my reputation as a chap who knew a bit. But after
listening recently to a discussion programme on BBC Radio 4 in which
the great British public was invited to take part, I don't know why I
bothered. There seems little mileage in having Johnny Foreigner
speaking our language more correctly that we do ourselves. I am also
dismayed by the inarticulacy of so many adolescents these days. Their
speech is like you know really like bad, dyknowhatImean?, never mind
like the bad grammar, innit?
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Innit?
Many years ago I wrote
an English Grammar for foreign learners. It made me a few bob and did
nothing to harm my reputation as a chap who knew a bit. But after
listening recently to a discussion programme on BBC Radio 4 in which
the great British public was invited to take part, I don't know why I
bothered. There seems little mileage in having Johnny Foreigner
speaking our language more correctly that we do ourselves. I am also
dismayed by the inarticulacy of so many adolescents these days. Their
speech is like you know really like bad, dyknowhatImean?, never mind
like the bad grammar, innit?
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