Thank you for not being mean.

Genuinely. People who've read my longer posts will.know that I make loads of typos. Its a combination of being bad at text typing and not great at editing. I sometimes go over them later and cringe at all the errors as I change them after the fact. I've been told that I can write well but the typos must detract from that. Nobody has ever taken the piss out of me for this, even though I maybe deserve it. So thank you. 👍

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bookerdana · M

Even though I have spell check ,my posts often look like Olde English before editing,The Beowulf saga;I work better with paper ad pen

helenS · 36-40, F

@bookerdana English spelling is archaic anyway – it's a joke. Compare the spelling and pronunciation of words like "knight", or "gaol" 😏

bookerdana · M

@helenS Thank goodness we don't say gaol in the US😏 There was a movement in the US to make spelling phonetic but it died..in my case its my keybooard skills or lack thereof(I left the extra O as an example)

helenS · 36-40, F

@bookerdana Oh I think a phonetic spelling reform is impossible because it would render millions of books unreadable.

bookerdana · M

@helenS So we live with a broken system? I hate making all these spelling fowks passes😀

helenS · 36-40, F

@bookerdana Problem is that, in English, spelling and pronunciation are so far away from each other that a true phonetic reform would have to change almost everything.

bookerdana · M

@helenS Start small,the K in knight the g in night,etc..its a start thow!

Burnley123 · 41-45, M

@helenS Despite being such a popular second language throughout the world, it's very contradictory and difficult to learn. I know this - not because I speak another language - but because I've taught children new to the country. There are so many contradictions even with the spelling rules and phonetics and our use of verbs is weird.

I have also been told by multilingual people that it's an excellent language for fiction writing because it allows for so much variety in description.

helenS · 36-40, F

@Burnley123 Yes – one of the difficulties is the abundance of different words for the same thing. Compare royal – regal – kingly. Of course, there are slight differences, and these are very difficult to understand.
My main grammar problem is talking about the past, because in English there are complicated rules of how to relate the past to the present time:
I waited – I have waited – I was waiting – I have been waiting – I had waited – I had been waiting.