Till vs. Until

[Harsh Chowdhary]

hi Torsten,

Actually in sms language we often use to write 'thanks' as 'thanx'.I m more habituated to sms language.I promise I will change my habbit of writting in sms language.secondly,i thought that 'arised' is past participle form of 'arise'.Now i have checked in dictionary and got to know that it would be 'has arisen'.Thirdly, in 'could u' i have written 'you' as 'u'.Sorry for that once again.But Torsten i don't make out why 'explain me' is wrong???..

[Torsten]

In English, we say 'can you please explain' or 'can you please explain to me'. We don't say 'explain me'. As for 'sms language' it doesn't exist. There is only the English language and in English we capitalize the personal pronoun 'i'. We also separate each sentence by a space. It doesn't matter whether you use English in an SMS, on a forum, in an email or a letter of application. The basic rules of the language always apply. There are lots of people who have developed the habit of ignoring basic rules because they think it's cool. As a matter of fact, it's not cool at all. It's just sloppy.
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[Harsh Chowdhary]

Yes, I agree with you. It's really not cool at all. I follow you. Thank you very much for pointing out my mistakes.