I find myself teaching english to some people at work – they are mostly enthusiatic Libyans keen to improve their english.
For once. its not correcting native english speakers which makes a nice change. Unfortunately whoever taught them has convinced them of the need to misplace aspostrophes after an abbreviation, even if its not plural:
“I lent him my CD’s”
“Two PC’s broke down”
*cringe*
It is a pet hate of mine putting dodgy ‘s here and there – I’m not perfect but I do try and keep my written english as good as possible. So, it is two CDs, or a CD.
They like me to teach english because I have a “Scottish” accent and that I rarely use slangs so I am apparently easy to be understood.
Well that’s a first for me!
Urban Dictionary is my new friend to explain common slangs to them.
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written on a mobile phone in the middle of a Libyan desert
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