ebay removed all the neg and neutral feedback i left over the last year

This_Year

Obviously_the_best wrote: »

I can't believe nobody's pointed out that there's a fairly large grammar error in the question?

Would that be a grammatical error?

(I am ashamed to admit that I am not sure which is correct)

prowla

This_Year wrote: »

Would that be a grammatical error?

(I am ashamed to admit that I am not sure which is correct)

And the sentence, which might be missing the word "that", incidentally, seems to be a statement terminated with a question mark.

Flyonthewall

So what have we learnt from this thread that's about ebay and too many negs? Ah yes, we've learnt that nobody on here is really good at English

prowla

Flyonthewall wrote: »

So what have we learnt from this thread that's about ebay and too many negs? Ah yes, we've learnt that nobody on here is really good at English

"learned" ......

Flyonthewall

prowla wrote: »

"learned" ......

First of all, both are correct. Learnt is British English, learned is American English. Second, I'm British and this is a UK forum. Therefore I'm going to use learnt.

barmonkey

littlecutiepie wrote: »

No one is here to lie or create stories

I think you are seriously wrong about that

prowla

Flyonthewall wrote: »

First of all, both are correct. Learnt is British English, learned is American English. Second, I'm British and this is a UK forum. Therefore I'm going to use learnt.

Not entirely that simple; see http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnedVsLearnt/bhnkq/post.htm for more explanation.

I wouldn't say that "learned" is American and "learnt" is English, as the former is more widely used in the UK too; however, it is fair to say that "learnt" is less commonly used by Americans.

Flyonthewall

prowla wrote: »

Not entirely that simple; see http://www.englishforums.com/English/LearnedVsLearnt/bhnkq/post.htm for more explanation.

I wouldn't say that "learned" is American and "learnt" is English, as the former is more widely used in the UK too; however, it is fair to say that "learnt" is less commonly used by Americans.

As I say both are correct. Not sure why you feel the need to make more of a point out of it.

I've never heard an American say learnt ever. I never said that either country didn't use the other at all though just that generally learnt is British and learned is American.

Either way as learnt is widely used in the UK and learnt is rarely used in the US and both are correct the correction of my original sentence was pointless, although it does rather prove the point I made and it shows that people are more bothered about correcting others than actually bothering to give advice.

prowla

Flyonthewall wrote: »

... Ah yes, we've learnt that nobody on here is really good at English

Flyonthewall wrote: »

... and it shows that people are more bothered about correcting others than actually bothering to give advice.

Precisely...