Sometimes?I dunno... sometimes I feel it’s effective to effect the verbalization of concepts through the utilization of unsophisticated terminology.
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Bazinga!
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Wow that was rather harsh, idiot sure, but moron
?....hey maybe we didn't take the same test, did you have to turn your head and cough?
"Your an moron, we're not wondering if English is your first language, but rather if you even have a language."
Wow that was rather harsh, idiot sure, but moron
?....hey maybe we didn't take the same test, did you have to turn your head and cough?
You are not an idiot! You know your stuff!"
"Your an moron, we're not wondering if English is your first language, but rather if you even have a language."
Wow that was rather harsh, idiot sure, but moron
Yes, full stop = period. They teach us british english in school.
And thanks for the explanation!
Based on my experience with various Germans: no they don't
British English is taught here as well, but they never bored us with the names of punctuation marks. All the ones I know I've learned later, from tv and internet. I honestly thought I'd heard 'period' being used on British telly, but it seems I'm mistaken on that one. I've looked it up now and indeed: 'period' is American English and 'full stop' (which I'd never heard of) is British English.
And you're welcome!
Based on my experience with various Germans: no they don't
British English is taught here as well, but they never bored us with the names of punctuation marks. All the ones I know I've learned later, from tv and internet. I honestly thought I'd heard 'period' being used on British telly, but it seems I'm mistaken on that one. I've looked it up now and indeed: 'period' is American English and 'full stop' (which I'd never heard of) is British English.
And you're welcome!
I started to learn english when I was in fifth grade and we had to write a dictation (fifth or sixth class). So the teacher told us when a sentence was finished. I do not know if she read the whole sentence once and repeated it in parts so we could write it down. They gave us British Names mine was Nelly.
Many like me are watching movies and series in English that's where we learn American English. Also while reading novels and so on. It is really not easy and we mix it up all together.
One issue, I think, is that foreign productions are usually dubbed instead of subtitled. So actually yes I believe English is being taught in Germany (I was joking about it in my previous post), but as many people rarely use or hear it again, they forget about it. Similar to me forgetting how to speak, read and understand French and, until I needed it again for my job, German. And the other way around: my English really improved after my school career ended. And yes it's probably a mix of British and American English
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
I think you mean "git" lol. And they're fine
Who axed you?
My Albanian renovator spells better than that, and English is his second language!
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
There are some words which make you think.
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Yup - I passed - apparently I am in the 5%
(Good girl! Now...stop chatting!!!)
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Sure, sure - now stop
picking on me! 
Sure, sure - now stoppicking on me!
I'm a stickler for not using shortened words and using punctuation. My Facebook 'friends' (I use that term lightly, I wouldn't talk to most of them in the street) don't have my pedantic nature, unfortunately. I've deleted over 100 of them in the last year alone ( a big lump of them because they came out of their racist closet due to the 'migrant crisis' (our gutter press' term, not mine) granted) but the rest because of their blatant disregard for good grammar. We have a very distinctive local dialect where I come from (Yorkshire, UK) Barnsley is just 10 miles down the road, very broad Yorkshire accent, but they play on it, and insist on writing in their broad Yorkshire accent. The movie Kes was filmed there. It's like trying to read an Irvine Welsh book, if he was from Yorkshire
I've even deleted my sister. Her texts to me, even the ones one sentence long are hard to decipher, the lack of question marks don't help. I'll have a look and post one. A female 'friend' pm's me 'U ok' on Facebook, one day I'll reply. Can't put said reply on here, moderators and that
