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Okay, this rant was just going to happen.

All over the damn internet, people from non-English speaking countries apologize for their "bad English," when in fact the biggest problem in their sentence is that they accidentally hit the comma key instead of the period key. And it pisses me off to see someone who writes the language rated as the hardest to learn almost perfectly, when Americans (or U.S. citizens, for those of you sensitive types), who only know English and manage to butcher it to kingdom come.

For example, I have many friends from other countries. Spain, Mexico, I've even met someone from Russia. All of these countries do not have English as their native language (with the exception of Spain, if I'm not mistaken), yet the people I've met from these countries speak near perfect English. I'll catch occasional errors, but I usually won't correct them, since I know firsthand how hard it is learning and continually speaking a second language (I'm currently in a Spanish class, and I love it). But I've seen people type like they have no vowel keys, and knowing they speak only English pisses me off. Believe you me, if you had read some of my classmate's English papers, you wouldn't be so sorry. Many of you speak it better than native speakers.

The moral of this short rant is, my dear children, do not apologize for your "terrible" English unless someone complains.



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