Regardless of all of this, this is, by far, the most well-spoken group of people I've ever encountered on an Internet bulletin board. A friend of mine was/is trying to get a DirecTV emulator job working and is posting on a bulletin board about that. And since DirecTV is only available in North America, all of these people are bound to be native English speakers (except, I suppose, for the odd French Canadian or Mexican), and they are totally unable to express thoughs in any sort of coherent manner. All of the non-native English speakers here speak much more properly and with greater aplomb than any of those other people do.

Also, I try to only correct people that I think need help. I don't correct the non-native English speakers because they don't expect me to speak perfect Swedish or Italian or whatever. In this case, I corrected because I don't want anyone to look bad at a job interview or in front of a professor or whatever.

Oh, and, by the way, it's ``faux pas''.