General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

I love threads like this, even though I don't always reply to them.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" was a typing exercise when I was learning how to type back in the 60s on an old typewriter in College. The exercise was to learn how to use all fingers for each letter, which I still use today, much to the amazement of lots of folk who use just two or three fingers to type.

Also, I love to learn the meaning of words and how they're used but, like many others, I despise the filler words such as "like," "obviously" and "basically," and it makes me cringe when people start a sentence with the word "so," and end a sentence with "so.....", all of which are used to create a space in conversation and interrupting the flow of natural speech.

The English language is very complicated, even for the English, and there is not one single person who can speak or understand "the Queen's English," not even the Queen, because it doesn't exist because of local dialect, so pity the poor foreigners who try to learn a language that even we can't master ourselves.

Thing is, it doesn't matter, as long as we make ourselves understood. That's what's important.