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    Posted: 16 Aug 2009 at 8:04pm
Bad grammar in commercials annoys me to no end -- especially if that commercial wants to teach you a new language.

In the first line of this Rosetta Stone commercial, she says:
"Are you one of those people who think you just can't learn a new language?"

It should be: "thinks you just can't learn a new language."

One thinks.
They think.

Maybe it's a bit nit-picky, and I did go to school for journalism, but the fact that someone probably was paid big bucks to write this commercial ANNOYS ME!

And I should trust Rosetta Stone to teach me a new language, when they don't even know proper English!?
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I hate how that chick says "can't".
Me hate Grammar Nazis.
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NASA? What the hell, do they teach Martian?
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I must disagree about the grammar. She asks "Are you one of [the group]?" The group consists of "those people who think they can't learn a new language".  So, she is asking whether the viewer is one of "those people who think they can't learn a new language." So the grammar is correct. No offense, that's just how I see it.
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Originally posted by Sgt Saunders

NASA? What the hell, do they teach Martian?


Russian, among others. It is handy to have at least one common language aboard the ISS. Especially when all the visits will be made via Russian built spacecraft after we retire the Shuttle next year. And the Russians learn English.
"Si vis pacem, para bellum"

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Originally posted by Sgt Saunders

I must disagree about the grammar. She asks "Are you one of [the group]?" The group consists of "those people who think they can't learn a new language".  So, she is asking whether the viewer is one of "those people who think they can't learn a new language." So the grammar is correct. No offense, that's just how I see it.


I see what you are saying, but if I'm not mistaken "of those people" is a prepositional phase.  So the word "think" refers to "you" and not "of those people."
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Actually, think would go with you as well... i.e. you do not thinks
 
But anyway, Sgt. Saunders has it right.  People...think
 
If she asked, "Are you A PERSON who..." thinks would be correct.
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