> Sorry my nonexsisting english.
Don't apologize.
Nobody here should laugh at your writings. Many people here learned english as a second language, and must remember their early struggles with it. Most of us who learned english as babies should remember our ancestors who had to learn english.
English is a bastard language born in the mud of a little island at the edge of the world. There isn't any good reason for anybody outside London to speak english. Except a few hundred years ago, a few Englishmen expanded their business to all corners of the world. Tea, opium, tobacco, rum, cotton, slaves, sheep, and wood; in China, America, India, Australia, Africa. Anybody who wanted to make money learned to speak a little english. With all this money came machines and technology (steam engines, steel, electronics), so a lot of technical information is presented in english.
Remember that for some of this time, "Good People" did not use english. Around the King and Queen, you used French in public: French was a "good" language. (In private, many of the english monarchs used German, because half of them came from the German royalty.) In good schools, Latin was the "good" language. Only street-people and business traders used english, it was a "gutter language".
My own family, centuries ago, when the people around London spread their business to all of the island of England plus Scotland and Ireland, were beaten or put in prison for speaking Scots or Irish.
At the time the USA was founded, over half the people were German. However all the courts and cargo ships were run by Englishmen, so the Germans learned enough english to handle their legal and business affairs. Even when the US split from England we kept that english-speaking tradition. All the Germans and others used english either as a second language, or quit using their original language so they would fit in with everybody else.
India has 1,000 languages, some very different. But after the English ruled the country a while, a lot of Indians learned english. Both because it was the language of the Englishmen who ran the courts and trading ports, and because two Indians of different languages could work together in the english language.
We mostly speak english here for the same reason: of all the languages of the world, english is the most common shared language. Those of us who were forced to use english generations ago are now more comfortable in english than people who learned it more recently. But I know my great-great-grandfather had to learn english, without even forums like these for study, and surely his english was much worse than yours.
english is a bastard language with many roots and many conflicting "rules". It is such a mess that everywhere it goes, it changes. My American (US) english is different from what Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair now use in England, and different from the english that our working-class English friends here speak (even ignoring their special slang). english is different in Canada, Australia, India. None of these are "wrong", because there is no authority to say what is "Right". We have dictionaries and grammar books, and some of them pretend to tell us what is "right", but they can only document how english is used by certain people. When I listen to the different flavors of english, from India or China, I note that it is different from how we talked in Missouri USA, but I don't think it is "wrong". english is a very dynamic language.
And before english, much of the world spoke Latin. Or Greek, Or Coptic. Fashions change. Maybe in another century, Estonia (which isn't any smaller than London once was) will expand their business and the whole world will learn Estonian.
Don't apologize.
Nobody here should laugh at your writings. Many people here learned english as a second language, and must remember their early struggles with it. Most of us who learned english as babies should remember our ancestors who had to learn english.
English is a bastard language born in the mud of a little island at the edge of the world. There isn't any good reason for anybody outside London to speak english. Except a few hundred years ago, a few Englishmen expanded their business to all corners of the world. Tea, opium, tobacco, rum, cotton, slaves, sheep, and wood; in China, America, India, Australia, Africa. Anybody who wanted to make money learned to speak a little english. With all this money came machines and technology (steam engines, steel, electronics), so a lot of technical information is presented in english.
Remember that for some of this time, "Good People" did not use english. Around the King and Queen, you used French in public: French was a "good" language. (In private, many of the english monarchs used German, because half of them came from the German royalty.) In good schools, Latin was the "good" language. Only street-people and business traders used english, it was a "gutter language".
My own family, centuries ago, when the people around London spread their business to all of the island of England plus Scotland and Ireland, were beaten or put in prison for speaking Scots or Irish.
At the time the USA was founded, over half the people were German. However all the courts and cargo ships were run by Englishmen, so the Germans learned enough english to handle their legal and business affairs. Even when the US split from England we kept that english-speaking tradition. All the Germans and others used english either as a second language, or quit using their original language so they would fit in with everybody else.
India has 1,000 languages, some very different. But after the English ruled the country a while, a lot of Indians learned english. Both because it was the language of the Englishmen who ran the courts and trading ports, and because two Indians of different languages could work together in the english language.
We mostly speak english here for the same reason: of all the languages of the world, english is the most common shared language. Those of us who were forced to use english generations ago are now more comfortable in english than people who learned it more recently. But I know my great-great-grandfather had to learn english, without even forums like these for study, and surely his english was much worse than yours.
english is a bastard language with many roots and many conflicting "rules". It is such a mess that everywhere it goes, it changes. My American (US) english is different from what Queen Elizabeth and Tony Blair now use in England, and different from the english that our working-class English friends here speak (even ignoring their special slang). english is different in Canada, Australia, India. None of these are "wrong", because there is no authority to say what is "Right". We have dictionaries and grammar books, and some of them pretend to tell us what is "right", but they can only document how english is used by certain people. When I listen to the different flavors of english, from India or China, I note that it is different from how we talked in Missouri USA, but I don't think it is "wrong". english is a very dynamic language.
And before english, much of the world spoke Latin. Or Greek, Or Coptic. Fashions change. Maybe in another century, Estonia (which isn't any smaller than London once was) will expand their business and the whole world will learn Estonian.
