More seriously, as I wrote in the original blogpost, I do not mind at all, someone pointing out when I’ve got something wrong, be it spelling, grammar, or factual information. Whilst you understood what I actually meant, it wasn’t quite what I wrote.

Thank you also, for the kind words of encouragement in your last sentence.

Ricky, you need to remove the first comma from this sentence or you’re saying that all Native Speaker expats can’t be fussed about writing in standard English and nor do they get any facts about the country they presently reside in correct. You mean, I’m sure, that not all of us use what you consider “correct” English and this is true. However, the sentence as it stands, by using a non-restrictive relative clause, gives the idea that all expats whose mother tongue is English ain’t speaking the lingo proper, like.

Compare this “… all expats whose mother tongue is English ain’t speaking the lingo …” with this “all expats, whose mother tongue is English, ain’t speaking the lingo proper …” and you’ll see how the meaning changes.

Keep up the good blogging work.

– Edward Young

Answer: Too much `correction`. – - Gordon Truefitt