Re: The cranky thread
Also, I can usually recognize the common mistakes that foreigners make and completely disregard them. After all if you are making the effort to communicate with me in my native language when it is not yours, you certainly deserve to be given a break on grammar and spelling. But I do give up when it reaches the point where I just can't understand it at all or it takes too much effort to try to understand.
As for you L. Marcus, I'm impressed on a regular basis by your ability to not just grasp the basic language but slang and idiom too...but don't let that go to your head.