How many of you could be classified as ESL? I've noticed a lot of strange language patterns here which indicate that many of you do not know English very well. An example:
>Why don't poets write like John Milton anymore? This is how a native would ask this question.
>Why poets don't write like John Milton anymore? This is how a French or Spanish speaker would ask a question in English. It is also a very common question form on this board.
I'm a native English speaker but after spending a lot of time with ESL people I think it's messed up the way I speak and I find myself speaking and writing like the second example.
Colton Nelson
what the fuck is an ESL?
Blake Davis
This, pretty much. I hate Americans and their stupid initials. That's why I hated DFW, btw. The stupid cunt couldn't come up with good names so he had to compensate his lack of creativity with length.
Ethan Turner
Extremely Sad Loser
Ayden Long
not me then ;)
Luis Cook
I'm actually a EFL. Every time I type and click send I'm afflicted with anxiety because my sentences aren't natural enough. That's why I'll never do an exchange program and will be forever doomed to live my shithole country.
Ethan Collins
Where are you from user?
Eli Perez
Retard, if you speak four languages, who cares if you stumble while speaking English. Be proud.
Jack Russell
The second would be a post explaining why poets don't write like John Milton
Jackson Evans
>such retarded analyses and queries american amirite
Jaxson Collins
>EFL english first language? oh shit me too bro
Blake Gutierrez
yep thats me
Austin Richardson
>How many of you could be classified I could be. I could be classified--should anyone actually want to classify me! But there is nobody out the there, it seems, who desires to classify me. Involuntary unclassified I shall remain. Oh, no doubt, some charitable soul, moved by compassion, I dare hope, rather than mere scorn, shall endeavour to classify me now. Oh, do I feel it coming! Just once though I would have rather been classified without my needing to lament my sorry, unclassified state.
Hunter Carter
>amerimutt thinks English has a rigid syntax structure and the second form of the question is incorrect Yikes! Milton himself would've'n'st scoffed at your plebianic notions.
Justin Stewart
English didn't invent English. Danes did.
Ryan Perez
Yeah, I also notice "the" inserted in front of random nouns a lot where it shouldn't be like is common in romance languages.
Someone who doesn’t speak English natively. It stands for English as a Second Language. As in “This classroom is for ESLclasses” which in my neck of the woods means Spanish for spics.
Aiden Young
I want to stomp your face in barefoot. I want to feel it all. Faggot. Not even your mother can classify you then.
Connor Moore
>Extremely Fat Lobster >Emasculated Foreign Leper >Eunuch Finding Love >Erstwhile Female Leprechaun which one is it, user?
Dominic Watson
Did you mean acronyms?
Jose Hill
What is the right way to ask then? Second one is the most correct
Nathan Price
I'm an ESL, and so what? I'll just try to type English the best way I can. If you guys are gonna be massive faggots about how it is, so it be.
Grayson Harris
>so it be It's so be it I'm even not a native English speaker and this I know
Brody Morris
>it's It's It is so be it's Dumb anons
Kayden Diaz
I'm an ESL and I speak better English than most posters, at least during the euro hours.
Second one is a statement written as a question. It's what you would say before explaining why poets don't write like they used to.
Noah Clark
I'm a native English speaker but my grasp of grammer and syntax and vocabulary are so poor that I'm sure I come off to others as "not good at speaking".
Aiden Nelson
i dunno but butterfly has some DSLs :3
Caleb Diaz
>muh polyglot Niggers speak four languages it means nothing
Caleb Carter
>t. 56%er fuck off incel
Xavier Young
English is the town bike of linguistics. Who cares about how well it is used? English is for getting the point across with people of all origins, and my native tongue is for art. That's just how it is. Would knights of old dedicate poems to harlots?
Justin Wilson
>butterfly's face when she makes someone obsess over her for weeks Maybe she's not a lesbian, but she is basically stringing your beta ass along like a pro THOT
Owen Wood
Women are the scum of the earth.
Jack Robinson
No need to be offended, friends. I don't speak English perfectly, and I'm a native speaker! I'm just pointing out that your typing patterns are often indicative of an application of romance language patterns to the English language. I wanted to know if I was right in assuming that many of you speak French or Spanish as first languages.
Ethan Adams
I'm ESL but whenever I talk with Amerimutts I'm under the impression that my english is better than theirs.
Camden Allen
I'm Hungarian. Are there any known patterns that people can use to identify us in English?
Landon Ramirez
Someone sure is mad i/r/t to the language slash phrasing used on image boards, internet comments &c.
Mason Flores
That guy is either trolling or seriously mentally ill.
Jason Allen
No but your entire language family sounds like gibberish to us.
Nem szem lem zsemn nem debronem selonem femmmn nem zsemmememsmnnnsn shlenenenomemen
Zachary Flores
Hihihi, you're thinking of "eszperente", a way of poking fun at hungarian for how hoften the sound of "e" is used. It's really like that.