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Originally Posted by Glice
That's a fair point - I was more getting at the fact that people like yourself have a better command of the language most people who post here. You're entirely right, of course, but I would say that if you're writing from the perspective of a Frenchman, it seems pretty pointless avoiding what you perceive to be colloquialisms because you just don't have access to that understanding of English.
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Actually, you're right; in that particular case, though, it was important - though you couldn't guess it -, as this course is a preparation for Cambridge's Certificate in Advanced English - which will be corrected by English people.
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I think the reason why Non-native English speakers might use a better English than native speaker might be the fact that we tend to learn a "literary" English, rather than everyday's English. I believe the same constatation may be applied to virtually every language - I'm pretty sure someone who's studied French abroad would speak a better French than me, as there are loads of conjugations that slowly disappear, while some language deformations keep on appearing - but that's the way a language evolve, I guess . I'm not talking about the SMS language, which is clearly absurd (
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