One of the bigger problems with learning English is that it is actually two different languages: one as written and the other as spoken. We native speakers never notice the difference, but to others it is formidable.
“One of the bigger problems with learning English is that it is actually two different languages: one as written and the other as spoken. We native speakers never notice the difference, but to others it is formidable.”
I’ve read the Gibbon, and I’ve read the Blake but I write like Twain and Hurston - in the vernacular. It doesn’t come off sometimes but I don’t really give a hoot because I don’t feel like buckling down to the grammatically correct route... then again I haven’t polished much up since my research paper writing days.
Prost!