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Originally Posted by Don Pensack
A little forgiveness can go a long way. After all, many people are immigrants whose [not who's] native languages were not English.
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Actually in my experience more 'locals' have problems with grammar than people (scholars) whose mother tongue is not English and learned it at a later stage in life. Mine is functional at best but I try to keep the grammar under wrap. It can be an issue at times when I think in French then translate grammatical structures back into English then things get shuffled a little. The only irritating thing which is really very easy to fix is basic capitalisation, punctuation and what I call the basics: than, then, there, they're, their, were, where, we're, your, you're, does, dose. That's laziness IMHO (<- like this one
). I do a lot of spelling mistakes as typos but if I'm not sure of a new word I type or I read in a post I'll do a 'what is <word>' in Google and check it quickly before posting.