by "John Dean" <john-dean@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Sep 19, 2006 at 02:53 PM
Linz wrote:
> UC wrote:
>> RafaMinu wrote:
>>> Thanks for most of the corrections.
>>> I don't see what's wromg with "it has none or very few and far
>>> behind competitors", though...
>>
>> But I do, and I'm the native speaker. The native speaker is always
>> right. ALWAYS.
>
> For the benefit non-AUE readers, this isn't always true. Especially
> when UC says it.
If it were true, all English children would pass GCSE English with full
marks. Nor would there be any grammatical guides since we would all be
right
all the time.
--
John Dean
Oxford