At 21.19 2010.06.04, you wrote:
>Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>> At 02:43 PM 04/06/2010, you wrote:
>>   
>>> Wrong usage of "play nice". It should be "play nicely". Must use the
>>> adverbial form.
>>> - Xiao Xu
>>>     
>>
>> Sorry, but "Play nice" is idiomatic English.
>>
>> Googlecount("Play Nice") = 1.8E6
>> Googlecount("Play Nicely") = 0.2E6
>>
>> More than 8:1 in favor of "Play Nice".
>>
>>   
>Maybe in America

I second that. Unfortunately the (mis)use of "it's" in place of "its", of "you're"
in place of "your" is very common in the U.S.A., I've encountered such horrors even
in official documents. :P (as You can see, the subject I used is "provocative" by will)

So I wouldn't use statistics (like the 8:1) to actually prove something like this.

Disclaimer: English is not my native tongue, and I haven't studied it in school, I'm
just self-taught but although all of this I try to speaker/write it correctly.

Cheers,
Mario

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