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Old 14th January 2018, 02:35   #17  |  Link
johnmeyer
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Originally Posted by StainlessS View Post
EDIT: I take great delight in screwing with the English language, I do know the diff between is and are, but if our colonial friends like feisty can talk rubbish, then so can I.
(All that I ask of our colonial friends is to not call it English, I have no problem with it being called American, or any other kind of patwa or pidgin english).
You can call what I sometimes speak, bad English.
I am married to one of your countrywomen and I know that the way to set an Englishman's teeth on edge, like fingernails on a blackboard, is to respond to your last sentence by saying, "we Americans speak real good English."
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