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Rastoff
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How to write good.
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Proper use of the English language is lost on the younger generation. I first realized this after retiring from the PD and teaching at a small four year college for a couple of years. Not only could most students not communicate in writing, but many had little to any reading comprehension.
Jack Flash
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When Winston Churchill was told he should not end a sentence with a preposition, he said:And remember; a preposition is not a proper word to end a sentence with.
"That is a proposition up with which I will not put!"
Rastoff:
Thanks for the advise.
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Generalizations aren't worth a damn, including this one.
Portuguese, French, English.
Edit. Spanish is only fourth.
I admire persons who are multi-lingual. How do you keep all those languages straight?
My family always a got a laugh out of my alleged misadventures speaking French in Quebec Province.
I've been seeing.....
...ads for programs to help you write better.
I think it's about the worst invention in years.
...ads for programs to help you write better.
I think it's about the worst invention in years.
I feel bad for my son, he has started dating an English teacher.
shouldazagged
Absent Comrade
I was raised by a journalist and a school teacher. My dinner table conversation was edited, not harshly but firmly and regularly.
I never had a chance.
I never had a chance.
I had a professor in school who was known for being a real stickler on draftsmanship. Decades after graduating, when I was drafting exceptions to coverage for title insurance policies, I could still hear his voice in my head setting out his directives for draftsmanship.
I'd add that comparisons are like a simile.
Writing well is indeed better than writing good.
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Capitalism, Of Course!
I read a lot. And I have some sort of internal "switch". I kind of start thinking in the language I'm using at the moment, it just comes natural.
In Quebec I would also be in trouble.
Absalom
SWCA Member, Absent Comrade
Are you sure you are not confusing Churchill with Yoda?
They do look alike, somewhat.
Ivan the Butcher
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My second son had a friend and classmate the last three years of High School. The boy's parents had been Missionaries on four continents. The young man's first language was Sawana, followed by English, German, Spanish (South American style and European) and Cantonese. With smattering of Brazilian Portuguese, and a few Asian dialects. The teachers would be driven crazy with his poetry shifting languages and dialects. But it maintained meter and rhyme and especially comprehension! They quit trying to correct his spelling when he produced foreign dictionaries with non-American spellings. I always thought the entire school would have benefitted form an hour a day of him explaining how the rest of the world operated! He Graduated H.S. with a 4.21 GPA for the 3 years in America (Honors Classes have a 5 point for an A).
I read a lot. And I have some sort of internal "switch". I kind of start thinking in the language I'm using at the moment, it just comes natural.
In Quebec I would also be in trouble.
I went on a lot of fishing trips to northern Quebec Province with my family. One year the fish and game department forgot to send English language fishing regulations to the camp. I was the only one in the family who could read them in French.
I'm sure that within three words out of my mouth the local people knew I wasn't a native speaker, but the effort seemed to be greatly appreciated.
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...it'll be ok once he accepts being constantly corrected.
It's good practice for married life.
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