karpentar:


What's even special about English language? It's nothing but a language and there are hundreds of other languages.
If that yeye English teacher write me a letter in Ijaw language, I will also spot some errors.

adem30:
And some idiots will be busy correcting Nigerians English on Nairaland

saltyatarodo:
You write a note about the Valentine's Day school shooting in Florida which left 17 dead -


President Trump replies...


Well, at least you replied to a response by your leader...


If it was PMB, there won't be anything to edit/reply because He would have responded with SILENCE and BODY LANGUAGE regardless of the number of casualties.

motherfucker:
Mumu... As if money is everything

Pussickpunk:


Money is everything, stop lying to yourself....

NOETHNICITY:
A retired secondary school English teacher has corrected a letter she received from US president Donald Trump and sent it back to the White House.
Yvonne Mason, who lives in Atlanta and was a teacher for 17 years, said the letter would have barely passed and corrected its numerous grammatical errors.
This included 11 examples of incorrect capitalisation of words such as "president" and "state".


"If it had been written in middle school, I'd give it a C or C-plus. If it had been written in high school, I'd give it a D," Ms Mason told South Carolina's Greenville News.

She chose not to attach a grade to the corrected letter, which included Mr Trump's signature, and posted back to the White House.
Ms Mason argued the note - which was a reply to a note she had written about the Valentine's Day school shooting in Florida which left 17 dead - was "stylistically appalling".
She acknowledged the letter was likely to have been penned by a staff member rather than the President himself.


"When you get letters from the highest level of government, you expect them to be at least mechanically correct," she said.
The teacher, who taught English at Hughes Middle School and Mauldin High School in Greenville for almost two decades before retiring last year, compared the billionaire property developer's letter to those sent by the state's Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
She said: "Lindsey Graham, or his people, writes exquisite letters. I give him credit for that. They are far more on-topic. I understand the nature of form letters, but Graham's are written as if they're addressing your particular concern."
In her original letter, she urged Mr Trump to individually meet with the families who lost loved ones at the Stoneman Douglas High School massacre.
The world leader previously held a listening session with student survivors of mass shootings, their parents and teachers in the State Dining Room at the White House.
The Trump administration has been frequently mocked for its grammatical mistakes. The president has become famed for firing off rambling, inflammatory tweets - which include misspellings, typos and other linguistic errors - to his 52 million followers in the early hours.
Typos penned by Mr Trump on Twitter include the famous "covfefe", misspelling President Obama's name as "Barrack", "rediculous" and "politicons".

https://m.qt.com.au/news/retired-english-teacher-corrects-trump-letter/3426302/

Lipscomb:
learn English? When my mates counting dollars?

kolafolabi:
If an American could make such blunders, then who are we..

motherfucker:
then you have not made good money in your life... When you do, the truth will reveal itself.

Pussickpunk:


Tell that to the ever smiling BILLY "Billions" GATES....

eniorisha:
I often laugh each time I see people embarrassingly correcting others over English grammatical mistakes or blunders. The native speakers are often amazed at our over consciousness of mechanical correctness of a second language after our native language. There are many things grammatically to which Nigerians attach importance but d native speakers will easily overlook, especially in spontaneous or unrehearsed spoken communication.

It's even worse for Nigerian students studying English as a discipline. One writes 4/5 pages to answer a test or exam question but ends up scoring 4/6 out of maximum 15 or 20 marks

Grammatical mistakes & errors are nothing to take too seriously.

datola:
That is rather petty of the retired school teacher.

I'm sure Trump does not care about such irrelevancies.

NOETHNICITY:
Bros, it's not an excuse to be a mediocre
if you ve the opportunity to learn and be better, do so.

saltyatarodo:
You write a note about the Valentine's Day school shooting in Florida which left 17 dead -


President Trump replies...


Well, at least you replied to a response by your leader...


If it was PMB, there won't be anything to edit/reply because He would have responded with SILENCE and BODY LANGUAGE regardless of the number of casualties.

adem30:
And some idiots will be busy correcting Nigerians English on Nairaland

GrammarCheck:


There is an apostrophe after the 's' in Nigerians...

goslowgoslow:

You dey mind them? They are more than idiots English is not our language.

AZeD1:


No matter how intelligent you are, if you can't communicate you won't achieve anything.

Chukazu:



Very myopic view I must say.

Have you seen deaf and dumb people that are exceptional and artistically gifted?

connkg:
Thought she'd see "forums". Not "fora"?

Reelmii:
I tot it was a nigerian teacher