On 22.01.2008, at 20:10, Stephen Barncard wrote:
That's really over the line, and I'm not talking about the grammar.
is your german perfect, List-Mom? Dann lass uns deutsch weitermachen!
Personal attacks are not what this list is about.
Wer lesen kann hat einen Vorteil. Keine Rede von einem
"snob", "ignorant" . . .
Yum, yum
2 points here and then it is probably time for both
Wolfgang and myself to go and gets a good night's
sleep (in, take note, our separate beds):
1. As a teacher of EFL and a speaker of really bad
Bulgarian I am well aware how difficult it is for
non-native speake
is your german perfect, List-Mom?
Ugh. Enough, people. Back to Revolution.
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Dear Wolfgang,
No, I do not speak German at all. I do have access to excellent free
translation tools however, since I need to answer emails in many
languages. Its rather fortunate I did not have to learn six or seven
languages before beginning my job.
I think by now everyone on this list
Heather,
Can you give us the references of this excellent free translation tool.
I am french and my english is so poor to follow well this list...
(snob, ignorant... I understand... But somes other interesting
informations not very well)
Thank you
René from Paris
Le 23 janv. 08 à 10:37, Heat
Sure. My preferred tool at the moment is Google. What would we all do
without Google?
http://translate.google.com/translate_t
Also available is Babelfish:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/
and for the minority languages which are not so well handled by these
two, a general search on Google r
Dear Heather,
On 23.01.2008, at 10:37, Heather Nagey wrote:
Richmond called himself a snob - acceptable, clearly he was not
likely to offend himself by doing so. You called someone else
ignorant. Unacceptable.
Sorry, cant see the offense. Check the root of the word ignore (latin
ignorare) I
I apologize for the 'grammar' comment. I am not
the language police, that's absurd. It's the
first time I've done that on this (international)
list.
However, this list is conducted in English, and
in English, it is an insult to call someone " an
ignorant" whatever. Period. End. You can s
On Jan 26, 2008, at 11:48 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote:
However, this list is conducted in English, and in English, it is an
insult to call someone " an ignorant" whatever. Period. End. You
can spend time with root words, definitions, etc. but here it's
perceived as an insult.
When I f
On Jan 26, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Troy Rollins wrote:
However, this list is conducted in English, and in English, it is
an insult to call someone " an ignorant" whatever. Period. End.
You can spend time with root words, definitions, etc. but here
it's perceived as an insult.
When I firs
I understood what Wolfgang meant when I read his original post. It
raised my eyebrows for a brief moment because of my own cultural/
linguistic moorings, but it made sense when I filtered it by trying
to understand his intent, and that he was likely not raised in an
English-speaking conte
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