RE: Question to all Americans: why do you refer to vehicles and ships as "she"?
July 13, 2015 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2015 at 2:02 pm by rado84.)
(July 13, 2015 at 1:40 pm)excitedpenguin Wrote: You can't know it's mostly americans. Don't be such an asshole.
I know a great deal of people who know a lot more about their own language than you do about yours , I'm sure, that choose to speak incorrectly on occasion - there's a thing we do that is called being playful.
Yes, I can because in the most of the time I talk to Americans one way or another - forums, e-mails, sometimes even voice calls on Skype.
I'm not asshole. Judging by another topic on AF, it's not me who's being an asshole. Our cute girl tried to help you but you proved to her you don't deserve to be helped, so think again who the asshole is.
Unlike America in Bulgaria personal ratings at school are not marked by letters but by numbers - 2 is the lowest and 6 is the highest. My rating about Bulgarian grammar is 5.92. Only me and another 2 percent of the entire nation have the same rating as mine. All other ratings are below 4.00. Only when you achieve such a rating you can talk about what I know or not know.
(July 13, 2015 at 1:45 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:When I'm tired I make mistakes.(July 13, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Atheist_BG Wrote: It's not about fashion but about education. Using the wrong grammatical forms only tells other people you're not well enough educated. Just like many people (mostly Americans) don't know the difference between the conditional moods "was" and "were". While many people say "if god was real" the correct form is "if god were real". I don't know about you but I don't like people thinking about me I've skipped classes, which I've never done (cuz English classes were my favorites at school and I never skipped even one).
If you are going to criticize people for incorrect grammar, you should make a better effort to use correct grammar yourself. Your last sentence is a garbled mess. It is much worse than someone using "was" when "were" would be correct.