# Is it totally wrong?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-totally-wrong/666397>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 16, 2013, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-totally-wrong/666397 "2013-08-16T08:02:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Reza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Reza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reza)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2013, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-totally-wrong/666397/21 "2013-08-20T04:57:10Z")

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> [@Chief\_Pedant](#):
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> I am always impressed at ESL (English as a Second Language) folks who try to put better fences around our use of English than we native users do ourselves.

Thanks for your kind view, I’d like to reply to your last lines:

Because, some of them [ESL folks] are into teaching this language, so they need to check everything and be precise.

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