Discussion Groups / British English / August 2006

Thank you for showing me that I am not alone in wanting all those
people who insist on peppering their text with apostrophes shot at
dawn.
I love reading your vitriolic messages to the grammatically unsure.

Firstable sorry for my english, but I hope to explain in the most clearly
way which are my doubts .
I'm italian and in my language there is a substandard (the purists call it
"not grammatical") use of the conditional:

Hello every one,
I was just reading Dr. Faustus and i have been so much impressed by
him. So for what r u waiting for?? Grab this copy and enjoy reading of
it!!!

Someone by the name 'John Of Aix' j.murphy@libertysurf.fr posted this filth
to a UK Political Newsgroup:-
Ping c.nt O'Relly
http://tinyurl.com/hrhzk

hello i'm a french girl!i want to perfect my english and it's thanks to you
than i want to learn!i hope an answer!thank you very much!
mallaury ,18 years old

I was watching the film "About a boy" the other day and I distinctly heard
Hugh Grant say "I think we beat the rat there, mate." This is obviously an
idiom - one on which my dictionaries are suspiciously silent, and so is
[1].

when we stayed at this hotel we thought we was getting value for money. how
wrong we was when we got there. the room was unclean very cold dirty and
smelled of poo poo! we was right next to a very busy and noisy street. there
was also a very noisy morrocan social club opposite which ...

hi everybody i dont accept this the aim of this group is speaking
english but some of friends are writing in their language some of us
know these languages but some of us dont
if u wanna speak your language please be member of another group