[OT] command of English by non-native speakers

[Chris Rees]

2009/12/12 Amedee Van Gasse (ub) <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>:
> On Fri, December 11, 2009 18:46, Chris Rees wrote:
>
>> What happened to journalistic pride??
>
> Do you mean the journalistic pride that created British tabloid journalism?
> Unfotunately we have a few of them over here (.be) too...
>

Interestingly enough, most of the red-tops (all British papers except
the Guardian are tabloid sized now; red-top means the name of the
paper is written in red) tend to have excellent use of language,
spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

Chris

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