It's an example of slang local way of speaking that is not correct, which I'm presuming is the same for this phrase you claim to hear a lot. A phrase that has caught on with people even though it is technically not correct.

"Once a text has been drawn up the process is only half way through: as a matter of fact, barely nobody can produce a perfect draft, hence the final version is achieved through accurate proofreading."

This is the first sentence on a PROOFREADING website!

http://ebl-italia.it/en/Services/Proofreading/

"EBL Italia not only translates texts but also revises pre-translated material and monolingual texts that need to be polished and perfected by our linguists.

Game, set and match to me I think!

Is English your second language, Nemo? I've never known anyone - even on here - to argue a point so quite fervently when they're clearly and demonstrably wrong. You're being intentionally obtuse because you're bored. And now... so am I.

An Italian website? Colour me convinced.

A link to the British Council's guide to grammar wasn't quite good enough for him, so naturally, he turned to the Italians, having nowhere else to go.

"Specialised in professional translations, proofreading services and website and web content localisation in all leading European languages"

Not getting my business, EBL!!

With flawless English linguists.
Just read a paragraph or two.

I'm right. I've won. Concede like a gentleman/lady.

You're not winning anything in the English language.

They obviously employ Irish nationals to do the English bits! :dance::joker:

The only person on this thread who's NOT a flawless English linguist is you.

But what that said applied to double negatives.

You're just making yourself look silly now.

Some of the most famous exponents of the English language were Irish.

Yeats, GB Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Johnathan Swift, and more.

He doesn't care, so long as he gets an argument! :joker:

No I'm not, you are.

And? How does that make you right?

But they all employed ENGLISH proofreaders, NOT Italian ones!

I like winning arguments, which I have.

Correction, you only come on here late at night to try and have an argument, any argument, because you're bored and you sleep until mid-day!

No, you haven't. You've proved to everyone your grammar is pretty poor, but that you could talk a pie off a shelf.

:joker:

"These were ancient constituencies in which barely nobody could vote and yet they were a district of land which returned Members of Parliament (MP's) to the House of Commons. The two most famous were Old Sarum and Dunwich. "

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/polchanges.htm

That English enough? History learning site.

G'wan! Admit it. I've won the argument!

Did you even have one to begin with? :conf:

You were simply wrong, no argument involved.

I didn't start it! The argument.