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post Dec 30, 2008 - 11:10 PM
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Little back ground : I've been in US for ~ 5 years and a couple months, when I came here I knew 0 English, so all this time I've been learning, improving little by little and now I can order a complete meal at McDonald's with no problem lol.
me and my brother collect Jordan Sneakers and we think is time to part with some of them as the market price is reasonable and we need more space to store some more. on our search online for price quotes and such, I have stumble across this web page, and honestly some of the stuff I just kind of figure out my logic, some other I just completely ignore.

Take a look !

we have a similar issue in Spanish and I'm sure it happens to most languages over the net, but is just sad.




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post Dec 31, 2008 - 2:59 AM
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English is my second language as well, however I've been in this country for a long time now.
I have to say that for only being here for five years your writing skills are a million times better then most people who were born here. That link you posted is a really extreme example, however sometimes I'm really shocked when I read some of the things people write on this site, knowing full well they were born here and should have no problems typing out a few sentences in English.

You can pretty much blame all of this on the American school system. I went to first grade in Poland, and when I got here they were shocked that I was pretty much at a 4th grade level. I even knew how to write in cursive, while the rest of the kids were trying to learn how to print and only allowed to use a pencil. They thought I was some kind of child prodigy.


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- Culpable04   what's happening to the language ?   Dec 30, 2008 - 11:10 PM
- - njccmd2002   so you speak spanish? where are you from   Dec 30, 2008 - 11:14 PM
- - Culpable04   Dominican Republic   Dec 30, 2008 - 11:16 PM
- - richee3   Uhhh.... that was probably the most f***ed up thin...   Dec 30, 2008 - 11:26 PM
- - gt_driFFter   Honestly would you expect anything different from ...   Dec 30, 2008 - 11:57 PM
- - easternpiro1   nevermind all that language mess!!!...   Dec 31, 2008 - 1:35 AM
- - lagos   English is my second language as well, however I...   Dec 31, 2008 - 2:59 AM
- - Hanyo   I believe how we write is very closely related to ...   Dec 31, 2008 - 3:12 AM
- - Culpable04   QUOTE (gt_driFFter @ Dec 31, 2008 - 12...   Dec 31, 2008 - 9:15 AM
|- - gt_driFFter   QUOTE (Culpable04 @ Dec 31, 2008 - 11...   Jan 10, 2009 - 12:06 AM
- - D-Man   Man, i could dog these kids all day long; but i...   Dec 31, 2008 - 9:53 AM
- - RickJamesBish   English is my third language, so I see your points...   Dec 31, 2008 - 12:54 PM
- - Random_Stranger   I can speak Gibberish, drunk, and tard   Jan 10, 2009 - 2:12 AM
|- - richee3   QUOTE (Random_Stranger @ Jan 10, 2009 - ...   Jan 10, 2009 - 12:19 PM
- - forkee   one of my personal sayings is "unfortunately,...   Jan 11, 2009 - 3:01 PM
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- - Random_Stranger   QUOTE (manphibian @ Jan 15, 2009 - 3...   Jan 15, 2009 - 6:34 PM


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