Originally posted by pete-tarmigan This problem is not limited to non-native speakers of English. It has lately become rampant among obvious native speakers of English, and not just in social media. The person who wrote that marketing copy could easily be a native English speaker. I guess spelling and grammar not important components of school curricula in the English-speaking world any more, at least not in North America.
Yes I was referring to the desire of many online native English speakers to cause my grammar policeman to come out with a nightstick and clout them on the head.
My Korean teachers knew more English grammar than anyone short of my English class college professors but still had some troubles with sentence construction and verbiage. Most Eastern Asian languages are formed in Subject, Object, Verb format while English is pretty much Subject, Object, Verb. Big difference in how your brain sets the wiring inside when you are a child learning to speak.