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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Sunday 18 January 2009 20:10:36 Willie Wong wrote: |
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>> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 07:49:10PM +0200, Penguin Lover Alan McKinnon |
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> squawked: |
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>>> If I read that message out loud, it sounds suspiciously like a babelfish |
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>>> translation from Japanese to English. Whatever it is, the author of the |
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>>> message is certainly not a native English speaker. |
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>> You have way too much faith in the education system provided by |
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>> English speaking countries. While I cannot argue for most of those |
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>> countries, I can claim, by example, that plenty of |
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>> native-English-speaking red-blooded Americans write in a way not |
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>> dissimilar to the snipplet cited above. |
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>> This is not to say your conclusion is wrong; I just don't think it is |
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>> possible to conclude from the evidence given that the author of the |
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>> message is not a native English speaker, when I consider the kind of |
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>> junk submitted to my in-law, who teaches at a fairly affluent suburban |
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>> school district, by students who pretend that they are writing in |
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>> English. |
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>> Of course, you can bloody-well argue, by way of Henry Higgins, that |
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>> "in America they haven't spoken [English] for years." :) |
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> Forgive me, I was being foolish again :-) You see, I have this fatal flaw - |
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> assuming that the capacity for logical thought exists; when in fact, upon |
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> examination, one usually finds no such thing.... |
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> Oddly enough (or maybe not so oddly) if I look around the other desks at work, |
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> the standard of spoken English is higher amongst the non-native English |
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> speakers. Maybe they actually paid attention in class? |
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Well, English is all I know and sometimes what I type doesn't make sense |
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either. I'm not stupid, I.Q. tests around 160 or so, but even tho it is |
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the only language I know, it is still hard to put something in print |
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that makes sense. Now if you read that and understood it, you are |
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good. LOL |
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This is also one of the things I hate about online dating or |
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friendships. Saying something in print is hard enough, putting feelings |
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into print is impossible. I guess the point is, you have to read |
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something and try to see what applies the most. Some things just aren't |
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meant to make sense. Like what I just wrote. ;-) |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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