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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