Talk:Guerilla non-eEnglish spelling and grammar campaign

Bravo

I don't quite understand all of what you write, for example where sarcasm talks, but I like it a lot. I'll tell you why. First of all, I've followed some not-so-nice behavior by at least one user who feels the need to discourage non native English speakers from contributing. This behavior is ridiculous and unhelpful. The second bit is that I know people in professorial positions who repeatedly and annoyingly mess up their, they're, and there. Very few (including me) English speakers understand past tenses, and I have found that non native speakers are superior in that field. Keep up the good work. Swilk 18:13, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

As an Englishman, it's a common thing for me to come across foreigners whose English I cannot find any flaws in anywhere apologising for their "poor" English, while the spelling (and discrimination between homophones - their, they're etc) of half of the native English speakers I know is simply cringeworthy. Screaming at non-native speakers for making mistakes because they're non-native speakers thus betrays something of their insular outlook on the world. I would certainly get annoyed if a German monoglot insulted me as an "idiot" for making mistakes in my German simply because I'm not a Muttersprachler! And so I can only commend User:notafish for her courage to stand up to such idiots :)

Incidentally, I think I shall take the spirit of this in mind and start contributing more boldly to the German wikipedia :) Hairy Dude 03:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Scotch versus Scots

Scotch is a drink. You meant Scots.

I'll be sure to pass your suggestions on to en:Alan Jay Lerner. 86.6.4.56 19:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Please be more specific

"Norwegians learn Norwegian ; the Greeks are taught their Greek"

(1) When you write 'Norwegian', do you refer to the Bokmål or the Nynorsk variant of Norwegian?

(2) When yoy write Greek, do you refer to the Demotiki or the Katharevousa variant of Greek?

Tread lightly; you could make quite a lot of people in Norway and Greece quite angry quite by mistake. (In other words, I suspect that the author realizses that the English speakers are not the only people who are a bit ... Sorry, I was close to make a deterogatory statement about half a milliard/billion people.)

(Unsigned by JoergenB, since the en.Wikipedia account doesn't seem to work here???)

Ditto. 86.6.4.56 19:25, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I will always remember my Greek professor, who when we made a mistake would say "Always remember, every retarded person in Greece knows how to do this."--Mrcolj 19:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Background: Poor language skills

A 2003 discussion from en.wiki village pump, with some additional comments by Anthere and Angela. --Nemo 13:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)