Comments by "marie parker" (@marieparker3822) on "Why English people should feel guilty for speaking English..." video.

  1. I get ill enough when I hear the abominations against our beautiful language perpetrated by Americans, who probably don't even speak any other language, and who appear to be unaware of the atrocities they are committing - refusing to use the perfect tense or its derivatives when required, ignoring the difference between weak and strong verbs, abusing prepositions, for example. It's horrible! As for those poor scientists who are writing in their second or third language, well - either they pay a professional translator to render their text into English before submitting it to their publisher, or they have the use of an underpaid drudge in the publishing house who will turn it into a model of accuracy and clarity.🤔
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  2. Actually, what I said above about editors enabling authors to convey their thoughts to readers probably no longer applies, since the publishing industry was casualised about twenty years ago.😢
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