Mhm - thanks for your comment, M.Ted. Still - most of this happened inside of an english-speaking community, so I suppose that everything wrong was corrected after some relatively short time, so people didn't get used to it.

Most of this - certainly not everything. So I also suppose that there should be some experience with things that I... err... sense happening to english from outside an english-speaking community.

You know I'm sometimes correcting misunderstandings between people talking english to each other. But english isn't my original language either. The question I ask myself is: Do I correct those misunderstandings correctly? and also: What misunderstandings happen, that I don't even notice? And there is no native english-speaking person there to tell us what we are telling to each other...

Maybe this is something seriuos enough to start a new thread...

Joerg