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Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

Nothing the wrong with the English skills of many educated Scots. It's nothing to do with any failing of MBK's or anything to do with her being a Scot. It's a consequence of her age and the state of our education system.

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Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid (Post 2269235)

so there may be more to it!!

Where to put apostrophes should have been covered before the age of 16, at least in the three most simplistic terms of use. Higher English should be covering it in much more detail than that. MBK having studied Higher English should know that there is much more to it than just "company is".

MBK would only have finished her Higher English about 4 years ago, and this is fairly typical of the standard to which English is now taught. English A' level would be no better. We are churning out millions of young adults who despite having specifically studied English, haven't got a full grasp of the language. Imagine the written work of one of MBK's peers, who did not study English, or indeed did not continue past Standard grade or GCSE.

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by CoolGirl (Post 2269231)

Corrected for you :D

Damn, I was just about to do that too. :D

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

Bloody hell, I did say I wasn't sure!

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

Well we hope you are now!!!

:D

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by CoolGirl (Post 2269378)

No such word as 'companys'. Perhaps they should call it the Higher Scottish?

singular: company
plural: companies

possessive, belonging to one company: company's
possessive, belonging to more than one comapny: companies'

simples.;)

Corrected for you:)

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by timwilky (Post 2269222)

Bloody foreigners need to learn English

+1
Especially those damn yanks!

;)

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by BanannaMan (Post 2271438)

+1
Especially those damn yanks!

;)

;) indeed.

I had said it was a damm yank that caused my annoyance. He described my presentation boring with inconsistent spelling. I had to ask him what spelling and he said you keep spelling "license" incorrectly.

Still I gave him a little lesson of noun=licence, verb=license. as in :-

You license the use of a software product by applying a licence.

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by timwilky (Post 2271476)

So you got him told? Hope so, they somehow think English language = American :confused:

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

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Originally Posted by BanannaMan (Post 2271438)

+1
Especially those damn yanks!

;)

No mate, Poles are even worse ;)

Re: Bloody foreigners need to learn English

In a previous life I wrote regional reports for a global company that got reviewed and "standardised" by a central team. I took great delight in changing the spelling back to standard English after they'd messed it up. No matter how many times we told them the UK-based regional management team would throw out the report if it was not written in "local language" they never listened...