keeylad wrote:well i hope i dont sink my chances with any likes but as u say i doubt that if they reject me it will solely because of that. Infact im quietly optimistic (well less so now i said i am) but we will have to see. I still find myself reeling with horror when it is used perhaps an overreaction to my own use.
Keeylad,
I think you do yourself a disservice in believing that you're not bright enough to recognize the difference between a pub night and a formal interview.
I doubt whether you'd ever write your term papers at Oxford in the same way as your recent postings here. In the same fashion, I don't think you'll have any problem exercising the more formal aspects of your grammar in an interview.
Valpower described how all ENLs used discourse markers in speech and McTag pointed out how these vary according to register, social grouping, etc.
Trust your internal grammar; it shan't fail you.
