Animby - just phoning it in says:

#33 Mr Hopper: “I pride myself in using proper grammar and spelling. It seems to me I’ve fixed a number of mistakes in your posts.”

Ah, well. that explains how one of Bobbo’s posts that was badly spelled was miraculously repaired. I thank you for fixing my posts. When I’m on the road and posting from my phone, sometimes the fingers feel like fat little Vienna sausages on the screen.

I apologize for my misunderstanding but I still maintain msb had already mentioned the “your” error thus your correction was contributory.

ON TOPIC: I travel a lot and am fluent in three languages. I can get by in another four – almost five (trying to learn Thai right now) and I’ve found one of the things that makes it hard to learn a new language is that the locals, detecting my accent, will immediately start chatting away in English! I wonder how many people visiting the US from, say, China or France, run into that problem? It’s a shame, really, that the US is such a monoglot of a country. Sure we take a couple of years of Spanish or French in high school, but then never touch it again.

Again, Mr H – thank you.

Floyd says:

Are you people aware that there are Spanish speaking people living in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern California, Colorado and other parts of the desert Southwest whose ancestors settled there long before the Mayflower landed? Don’t assume a Spanish speaker is a “wetback.”

Incidentally, Teabaggers seem to be the current version of rednecks.

bobbo, the evangelical anti-theist says:

Well, I’m insulted. Its been 9 hours and no one has correct my “your.”

So Homophonicphobic.

Heh, heh.