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Hello - I am new and wanted to say hi! I'm Angela from Australia, a happy reader/writer (amateur...) and can't wait to check out this group :)
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Hello! I am new here. I am a French speaker trying to improve his English. I began to translate my first novel in English. Not easy. All I learn will help.
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Well, never mind. We sort of stumble through the language together here. No language is "easy" when you think about it, so I just don't think about it so much. It's worked so far in life.
I have just joined your wonderful group. I don't have any party tricks but I'm polite and pleasant and I love words! I'm looking forward to meeting some of you!
Hello, I am from Finland so obviously English isn't my native language. I joined to see if I might learn something but probably won't post too much. Personally I can't understand the problems people have with their/there, your/you're or its/it's etc. I think most of us learned those during the first year we were studying English... I've studied four other languages but I am not so fluent with them.But these are my two truths and a lie:
I have met a real life spy.
I have shaken hands with President Bill Clinton.
I have seen Queen Elizabeth II live.
So I think you went to England , saw QE and shook Clinton's hand because you are the spy. Lol! Welcome to this corner , Tytti.
Hi! Atlanta is my home. 1. I have two webbed toes on each foot
2. I can't swim
3. I'm drowning in debt
Welcome , Tanya who has webbed toes and can't swim?
Carol wrote: "So I think you went to England , saw QE and shook Clinton's hand because you are the spy. Lol! Welcome to this corner , Tytti."Thanks, and you were close. It was my mom (and her family) who knew the spy, I didn't get the chance to meet him before his death. Kylmän sodan agentti: Kaukopartiojohtaja Lauri Solehmaisen elämäntarina this tells his life story (The agent of the cold war). He was one of the former reconnaissance soldiers who were asked and trained by NATO to cross the Soviet border and see what was happening there in the early 1950s.
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Oh. And interesting trivia.
Hiiii! I'm Miranda. I am not really a grammar freak, that's my friend and her older brother. But I've picked it up from her and this group sounded cool.
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Yeah especially those who live on the east coast of US, unlike us who live on the west coast.
Hello! I'm Ami. I love grammar. I'm not an enormous grammar buff, but I do pride myself on my working knowledge. I have to say, my biggest pet-peeve of authors is their usage of the comma splice. I could stab a book with excessive comma splices. But now I have a kindle and that's not a good idea...
Anyways... yay! Can't wait to have fun here!
Hi everyone! I'm MaryKate from Pennsylvania. I've been a bit of a lurker around here for awhile, but I'd like to get more involved in Goodreads groups. I enjoy language and grammar very much (a side effect of reading a lot, I imagine :-)) and I look forward to talking with you all here!
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Welcome, MaryKate from "You've Got a Friend in" Pennsylvania. Sheesh. Is that still on the license plate or am I dating myself?
Newengland wrote: "Hi, Ami. My 8th graders are enamored with comma splices, too. Still, as you point out, many authors indulge as well. Yeah, yeah. They're supposedly breaking the rules because they know 'em. Still, ..."I will be quilty of this because they are "mandatory" in Finnish. We were never actually taught the English punctuation in school. They just said it was so different and when in doubt leave it off.
And in Finnish we don't have "grammar freaks" but "comma f*uckers". (A direct translation, though I normally use "a comma filer".)
Greetings all, I have the doubtful privilege of being a full-time editor (Tytti, I think that makes me a professional "comma f*cker", also known as a grammar nazi). Right now it's the weekend and I am off duty, so it's time to boldly go and split infinitives.
Carol wrote: "Yeah especially those who live on the east coast of US, unlike us who live on the west coast."Hey... Was that a joke? I can't even tell anymore...
Miranda wrote: "Carol wrote: "Yeah especially those who live on the east coast of US, unlike us who live on the west coast."Hey... Was that a joke? I can't even tell anymore..."
Yes and a silly one at that. Right now the east coast has artic freeze temperatures, here in the US. Me I live on the west coast, NE lives on the east coast.
Carol wrote: "Miranda wrote: "Carol wrote: "Yeah especially those who live on the east coast of US, unlike us who live on the west coast."Hey... Was that a joke? I can't even tell anymore..."
Yes and a silly ..."
Oh. I'm on the west coast too.
Miranda wrote: "Carol wrote: "Miranda wrote: "Carol wrote: "Yeah especially those who live on the east coast of US, unlike us who live on the west coast."Hey... Was that a joke? I can't even tell anymore..."
Ye..."
North, south or some place in between?
Hee hee, Further south for me , Orange County.
Google Search--Orange County--Orange County is where Awesome Carol lives.
It is also a county in the state of California.
Hi!Goodreads newbie in from Georgia; the state, not the country :)
Miranda wrote: "Google Search--Orange County--Orange County is where Awesome Carol lives."
Funny person, Santa Ana. LOL!
Hello Hiba, welcome to the corner store, where you can find most things of a grammarian nature.
Plus my inability to make good jokes.
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I'd call Oakland, Northern California.
I'm souther in OC than Carole.
Yes about Oakland being in Northern California, but California is southern West Coast, which is what I was referring to. ;-)
Newengland, no-we don't have that friendly message on our license plates anymore :-) and I'm glad to be here!
Hi, I am Maria from far, far away in South (southern the Equator line). So, English is not my primary language. And so, if you will tolerate my joining in this group, you will see many orthographic errors (and it will hurt, I know...)I was in contact with grammar my whole life, since my childhood... (my mom used to teach it, but no English grammar) and I have it incorporated in my cell structures, so to speak. I suppose in my mother thonge I am a grammar nazi and a "comma splicer" to. Words are my work instruments, but I am not a teacher, nor a editor
I love whole words and am not so much a fan of abbrs., but I have learned to be flexible in these times of vocal- and consonants eaters (also know as texters).
Here are my two trues and one lie:
1. My shoes have melted from walking on volcano lava one time
2. I have been under surveillance by agents (the spy from Tytti, maybe?) in a period of my live
3. I´m allergic to chocolate
Ack, you can't be allergic to chocolate, that would be terrible. Life is a box of chocolate. Next time wear oven mitts instead of shoes, when walking on hot lava. Nowadays anything is possible as far as surveillance goes. So my guess , the lie would be chocolate. By the way a big howdy to you, Mariab.
I would agree with Carol. Is that the lie, in truth?
Well, you guessed right; "money doesn´t buy happiness, but buys cocholate, which is pretty close". And the agents discovered only that I eat it all the time!Mitts were not allowed because of enviroment´s rules (and the cook needed them for the lizzard pie).
Mariab wrote: "Well, you guessed right; "money doesn´t buy happiness, but buys cocholate, which is pretty close". And the agents discovered only that I eat it all the time!Mitts were not allowed because of envir..."
Being allergic to chocolate would have been the worst of those. And my parents were probably under surveillance once when visiting USSR so that's not really surprising either. Or the lava thing...
Mariab-I have to say, being allergic to chocolate would be a sad thing indeed. Not that being under surveillance wouldn't! Or losing your shoes to some lava! Nice to meet you :-)I didn't do two truths and a lie, so let me think...
1. I have an over 2 hour commute to and from work everyday
2. I live on a farm of sorts, complete with eight chickens, one rooster, and three dogs.
3. I once lived in Italy for a year.
Number 2 must be true (You strike me as a rooster person ;)). I'm not so sure about number 1 and 3. But the farm goes whith commuting needs, also number 3 must be the lie
MaryKate, I'll buy the farm and Italy. Commuting two hours not so likely.
Mariab is correct! Unfortunately, Carol, my commute is VERY long. I had to move in with my parents when I finished my Masters degree for (obvious) monetary reasons. I just got a job in Philly in September after looking for about eight months and we live pretty far from the city now. Ironically, we used to live right outside Philly until about three years ago. I definitely do not plan on living this far away forever, so I am saving diligently to move out soon! Also, I studied abroad and lived in Italy for three months, not a year (though I wish I could have stayed!!).
It's been quite an experience since becoming a relatively heavy internet user. Expanded horizons and meeting people all over the world. The wildest part is finding out that the rules I learned in school don't necessarily apply to the rest of the world. Or mayhaps that should be learnt? *winks*And by way of introduction, I'm Jay Bederwehl and I love to tell stories as much as read them.
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