(September 18, 2012 at 10:28 am)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote:(September 18, 2012 at 1:13 am)Stue Denim Wrote: Their's just no excuse for making a mistake in english, its such a simple language.
Simple language, is it? Ignores half its 'rules' half the time, multiple letters that by all means should not exist (x, q, k->c<-s, ph->f), letters that get pronounced differently for no reason at all, homonyms out the goddamn wazoo (including shit like bear and bear and bear (and not to forget bare and bare).
Oxford commas, messing up participles (will be, been, being, has been/will go, gone, going, has gone), fucking up word order and tone ("Where is McDonalds?" can come off as quite demanding), understanding the semicolon, when one should use parenthesis or a footnote or simply not elaborate, capitalization of pronouns and first letters of a sentence, misspelling words because it sounds right and goes through spellcheck but means something else, how nonphonetic half of our words sound (including phonetic)... apostrophes and word contraction, and a bunch of other unmentioned bullshit: English is 'so easy' that most of us don't even notice half the time we screw it up.
Native english speakers who've been in honors/advanced english since the start, read and reread classical novels in their spare time, and immediately grasped concepts put forth by teachers... even they have the potential to fuck up a sentence in English.
Nemo me impune lacessit.