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14. My students often tell me that they have RULES in their language and why don't WE?

Thu Dec 6, 2012, 08:38 PM

Dec 2012

It's a good question and I don't have an answer...

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R Grammar Gaffes Ruining The Language? Maybe Not [View all] ashling Dec 2012 OP

Yes CJCRANE Dec 2012 #1

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography - Language Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #2

Nearly killed myself bpositive Dec 2012 #7

Ha! I'll try. Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #13

You and me show up in these threads all the times. MANative Dec 2012 #8

Tsk, tsk. Complex and richly beautiful is one way to describe it Xipe Totec Dec 2012 #15

Some of that is interlanguage. Igel Dec 2012 #11

If somebody hadn't gotten lazy and sloppy somewhere along the line Speck Tater Dec 2012 #4

You have made the ultimate grammar mistake RebelOne Dec 2012 #10

Haha! You're right. Sort of. Speck Tater Dec 2012 #12

Punctuation ? Lokey Dec 2012 #16

Think about it this way. ananda Dec 2012 #9