Re: Anyone conversant in Tagalog here?

On Apr 16, 10:43 pm, Padraic Brown <elemti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 16 Apr 2007 03:26:48 -0700, phogl...@xxxxxx wrote:

English has long ago ceased to belong to native speakers alone. It's
us - the second-language speakers - who will set the standards from
now on, not them. We outnumber them.

Could be -- but the misuses of ESL users won't become Standard. They
will always be the subject of how _not_ to use the language.

If you're happy being continually misunderstood and degraded as an
ignorant and uneducated foreigner, then be our guest! If I were to
visit Finland, I would make an honest attempt to learn some Finnish,
and would graciously accept correction by native speakers. If Finnish
ever became the dominant language in the world, I would understand
that it is important to learn it properly.

phoglund's problem is that his English is too good. If he wrote with
an accent, his occasional bizarre lapses wouldn't be so occasional,
and we'd be aware that he was suffering from interference from some
other language. But they're so rare that they look intentional.

.

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