Hi Graywolf, on 23 Jan 03 you wrote in pentax.list:
>Heck, Doug, most of the folks from non-English speaking countries here on >the list write English better than most of us from English speaking >countries. I suspect that is because they learned formal English before they >learned colloquial English. I did learn English at school some years ago, but it is still much easier to read and understand a foreign language than to express what you are thinking. It simply takes more time to write a message in a foreign language than in your native one. Because of this there are much more occasions in which I want to write a reply than messages actually written by me... >I would also suggest that anyone who seriously corrects someone's writing >publicly is insensitive, impolite, or deliberately obnoxious. I would appreciate some feedback, sometimes. I often wonder if anyone can follow my thoughts in English. But OTOH I might go under in corrections...;-) Regards, Heiko from Germany BTW: I like your journal very much and keep my fingers crossed for your truck driver career.
