Originally Posted by totalimmortal
That's exactly what I mean. For all we know, the person maybe be struggling their asses off to learn our language. English is one of the hardest languages to learn, it's soo damn backwards. Calm down. ...
You get what I'm trying to say. A language doesn't come over night. We don't know that preson, they may be going to classes every day/night and struggling to learn English.
Oh absolutely..English syntax is just plain nuts. I readily admit that. There needs to be a reasonable balance and also the resources necessary to encourage people to learn the native tongue.
I know that if I wind up working as a foreign correspondent later on, I'll need to learn the language of the region I'm sent to. So, just as I would make the effort to cross the language barrier, so should those coming to America.
