Quoting Stone Gordonssen <stonegordonssen@...>:
> >What slightly amazes me is that despite the rate of corrections to my
> >English I
> >receive on this list, people online routinely assume that I'm
> American.
>
> Hmm, this may be due to:
> 1. people often miskey things
But miskeyings does not normally create outright grammatical errors.
> 2. people suffer from brainfarts
> 3. in my experience, Americans generally have the worst command of
> their
> mother language of any literate people I know.
You probably has point here. According to the OECD statistics I've seen,
Americans after twelve years of schooling have among the worst commands of the
written form of their mother language among developed countries.
Andreas