Bad grammar
HI, folks!
I'd like to know what you think.
Here at 2:44, he says "Sometimes you go to Scandinavia and they speak better English than we do, who grew up in America. Even that was bad grammar right there."
youtube.com/watch?v=Kn0HH-81daA
Bad grammar but better English. What kind of English would you think it might be? Polite English? Clear in meaning? Or something else?
Top answer
" - is not perfectly grammatical. "
- " - is not perfectly grammatical.
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The speaker, a native English-speaking American, is saying that what he just said - "...and they speak better English than we do, who grew up in America..." - is not perfectly grammatical. Said in perfect English, it should be something like: "When you go to Scandinavian countries, you sometimes hear the people there speaking better English than we, who grew up in America."
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