In which Pez wastes space on your friends list!

[pez]

I was just thinking how many people around here don't actually speak English as their first language. On my flist, I have Chinese (Mainland/HK, and I don't know if Taiwanese and Singaporeans like to call themselves Chinese), Filipino, Brazilian, Portugese, French, German, Norwegian, Finns (is that the right word?), Argentinian, Vietnamese, Indonesian... and others I can't think of right now because I lost some brains through my nose this morning. XD

I know we all mostly write in English because that's the language most understands around here. My question is, how come everyone's English is so good? Is it because you live/lived overseas? You learned it in school and keep practising online? You love reading English books?

Don't mind me, I'm just curious. XD Here, watch Roy dance.

Comments

[naru-naoe.livejournal.com]

Oh it was more of a: "hey this is a dangling modifier" vs "no it's emphasis" kind of thing so yeah XD

but no matter I love her work anyway, and she's really nice... uh yeah *shrugs it off*

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

Ah~ I never learned the proper names of those terms! It's one of those things that make me blink blankly... I know what nouns, verbs and adjectives are, but when people start saying modifiers etc, I just go "........". I think it's because I learned most of my English through just day-to-day living and reading novels.