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How would you rate your command of the English language?
Asked at Massachusetts Street on July 24, 2007
“Advanced I guess. It compares on what I’m comparing it to, but I teach English as a second language and translate documents.”
“I’d probably say average. I don’t have to use proper English where I work, and living in a rural area has something to do with it.”
“A little above average. I’m a college graduate, but I wasn’t an English major.”
“I’d say a bit above average. I have dyslexia, but it doesn’t really hold me back.”
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Comments
sgtwolverine 7 years ago
That depends on whether I'm speaking or writing.
Linda Aikins 7 years ago
gud
Bill Chapman 7 years ago
Fairly good - I read constantly (this tends to help with any English class). The reading helps to keep me current with both the historical and the current usages of syntax, structure, etc.
Dayna Lee 7 years ago
You'd be amazed how much you can say without saying anything at all in America.
Linda Aikins 7 years ago
Spywell, you maybe should have slept a little longer this morning....and not to ruin your already soggy cereal, but your response was well written.
Speaking of which, were all of you up all night or something?
geekin_topekan 7 years ago
Fair,now lets all learn Spanish!!
Linda Aikins 7 years ago
compares = depends
Typo? I wonder..........
Good catch, Mr. Harley!
H_Lecter 7 years ago
englisch Ich spreche gut
sunflower_sue 7 years ago
The inflection of my speech does not compare to the idosyncrasies of my dialect.
RI, I just thought they were alike in their likeness. Mine's like that, too.
jonas 7 years ago
Well, I was going to say very good, but as FerdinandLanghoff doubts my grammar, and that other poster, whose name apparently failed to imprint, questions my spelling, my entire world has been thrown into a dark morass of self-doubt and loathing.
So I'll stick with saying that my command of English is better than my command of the several other languages I'm learning. Better than dreadful is still better, after all.
geppetto 7 years ago
Que
Christine Pennewell Davis 7 years ago
I am with sgt. as any one who reads these posts know.
lmpaul 7 years ago
Occasionally I am quite embarassed for writers and speakers. Today's grammar is terrible. My current gripe is everyone saying, "You've got" which literally is "you have got". Then I received a letter that said, "Thanks for speaking with myself and John." (Should be "speaking with John and me.") Eeeeek! I don't want to go all Elizabethian, but come on, people, stop murdering grammar.
Linda Aikins 7 years ago
Impaul, you will have better luck getting people in Boston to use their turn signals!
Bradley Kemp 7 years ago
What's wrong with "you've got" or "you have got"? You've got to tell me.
beatrice 7 years ago
Gooder then most people do.
Linda Endicott 7 years ago
Depends on who you ask. I've always thought I had a little better than average command of English...but other posters on this forum (the grammar and spelling police) have had different opinions.
Ah...screw them!
Sean Livingstone 7 years ago
Huh, wot ez "English"? I are not god :P
massst 7 years ago
english is good for doing
JJE007 7 years ago
I play a poetically licensed axiom murderer on TV and acoustic/electric bass so when a note falls in a forest I hear tell and know whereof I speak, if you catch my adrift drift.
jonas 7 years ago
Impaul: And what, pray tell, is wrong with saying "you have got?"
A world where I can't say "AY! You have got da soul insida yuu!" is a world suddenly a little bleaker, if you ask me.
Next, you'll be telling me I can't say "You dun got dat der motorhuckle runnin guud, budzo!"
I'm going to have to dispose of a lot of hats and overalls.
sgtwolverine 7 years ago
Whoa! How did rumors start flying about me?
ramsrevenge 7 years ago
Speaking of language, this site made me laugh. I'm sorry.
http://www.kerman94.com/mexicotourism.html
james bush 7 years ago
It was better before Lawrence blogging came along and now it really doesn't matter considering the recipients of my blogs!
aeroscout17 7 years ago
OTOH, it is all about communication. If people know what you are saying, who cares if it grammatically correct. Anybody remember diagramming snetences?
packrat 7 years ago
I speak English vey goodly
sundancewierdo 7 years ago
we do not speak english as americans we speak a bastardized version of english we should call it 'merican and since i'm calling it whatever i want i can skip punctuation and spell it however i want i can skip the ugh in donut the u in color and favor etc.
jonas 7 years ago
I don't know, Marion, are you sure that's not a slightly bastardized version? I could understand all of that, and I seem to recall the Old English side of the page being much more incomprehensible.
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