个人不认为 It is raining soon. 是好英文，但是从「同情的了解」角度 出发，能够解出语意。 我相信tijj大到处询问的高人们，也都是从这个角度来看待这个句子的。 因此如果将我上一帖编出的对话，拿去给英文母语人士看，我赌一块钱，大多数会说 还过得去 (重点，不是正确，而是「还过得去」)， 尤其美国南方的乡巴佬，要讲文法规则，他们肯定输给板上的各位贤达。 我比较好奇的是，大家的英文如果都这麽好，干嘛不用英文来吵？ 我起了头，没人要跟，很没劲。 xxx 语言是不断演化的， 所以： You had better -> You better 这种variation，只要用得人多， 就会有编写文法书的人，把它写进去， 书印出来後，就会成为...成为...成为远东小岛国上的国民，捧着当作 圣经一样，引经据典数落谁谁谁的英文不好、不够道地、不够正确的圭臬。 Language is a tool through which we express our thoughts. The great comedian George Carlin once said that we do think in language, so the quality of our thoughts can only be as good as the quality of our language. You may think that the idea derived from the above statement justifies this lengthy debate over the validity of the expression in question. The hell it doesn't. Fucking Carlin would be laughing in his grave knowing people on a far east island with adequate English proficiency have been so hung up on such trivial grammtical crap while what they really should be doing is have meaningful discussion on matters that actually CONCERN THEM, like cross-strait politics and economics, the Euro debt crisis, the environment and green energy and whatnot, because THAT would be great exercise to put their language skills to test - force themselves to THINK in English. But hell no. We don't do that. We have to dig deep and find out if 'it is raining soon' is grammatically correct. Pathetic. All of us. --

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