Coming back to this post, because I find the comments extremely interesting.
After eight years of speaking my second language — and perhaps even more so after my recent trip back home — I sometimes wonder; do I come across as the same person speaking English, as I do speaking Swedish?! There are times when I doubt it.
I’ve had my English corrected a few times online … sometimes openly, other times, in a more subtle manner. That’s only to be expected, I guess *shrug*, but I ask myself; ‘What’s more important: To communicate or to be grammatically correct?!
All questions with no answer, only my own reflections.
What I wanted to say is that the English language is a great gift to the world, that we use as best as we can every day in our communications. I’m thankful that my own country gave me a good English-education.