Expat.com is an English-speaking site - or, more accurately, an English-writing site. It is also a site that welcomes people of all languages, and it is only reasonable not to criticise their versions of English, many of which versions involve literal translations of the writers' native languages. However, from time to time this site attracts foreign-language speakers and writers who would like to achieve a greater familiarity with "proper" English. And bully for them! This new thread is aimed at those people.
Even in English-speaking communities - especially online communities - there are those whose English grammar, punctuation, spelling and idiom are sub-standard, and this thread is aimed at them too. Sub-standard English is a serious handicap to many a born-English man and woman; we probably all know that.
I'm not a teacher of English, and I'm not setting out to become one. But I do have a love of the language that emboldens me to offer help to those who would like to write it better than they do now. I once read that, whereas English is one of the easiest languages in the world to learn to speak, it is one of the hardest to speak well. That goes double for writing it. Here is a link to an old blog-post of mine that was addressed to my local readership in this British colony. It gives examples of the kind of thing I'm talking about. Check it out.
https://barlowscayman.blogspot.com/2012 … glish.html