I don't suppose SB will be very pleased with you tomorrow.

Actually, his words mean nearly nothing to me. And as for you furnishing material that I can scoff about, well, I scoff at most of your posts anyway.. Usually, though, I'd rather do something more positive than respond to such drivel. Well, to be honest, when not responding, my scoffing is often accompanied by derisive laughter.

When teaching in China I often showed such posts as yours and SB's to my university students as examples of poor writing with limited awareness of syntax and grammar. But what many students usually focused on was the lack of a cohesive thought process on the part of the writer. Not that it was shocking to them, as they were already aware that they'd have to deal with incompetent, pretend teachers who actually thought they were teaching English as a Second Language - as one would with immigrants, rather than English as a Foreign Language. One of my students went on to write his graduate thesis on the incompetency of foreign teachers and speculated that the time would be coming soon when the pretenders would be sniffed out and kicked out. It would seem that that time has arrived. But that's a whole other story.