From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "Dennis Weldy" Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <32nusbR98GA.70@news2.ingr.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290930482 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$c45@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <3471428A.6193@erdw.ethz.ch> <64sql2$k0@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <34720007.344948449@serve.installshield.com> <3472e573.3440168@news.albany.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: Intergraph Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-11-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ok, jumping on the content of Chieh's post, if you'll note he merely ASSUMES the idividual is American, when there are penty of other countries where the original poster couldve learned English from 1-3 years of age. England, Ireland, Canada, Australia,.... all sorts of places :) Dennis Gary A. Wiltshire <70523.3077@compuserve.com> wrote in message <3472e573.3440168@news.albany.net>... >chiehcheng@iname.com (Chieh Cheng) wrote: >..... >>For one thing, your grammer sucks. And learn to capitalize. Isn't >>ironic when an American who learned English since he/she was born, >>write English worse than people with other nationalities? >..... >I don't normally pick on people for their English errors, particularly >someone who's learned it as a second language. Since you've seen fit >to do that, be advised that it is grammAr, not grammEr! The second >sentence above is (at least) stylistically dubious. The third is >plainly ungrammatical. Let's lighten up a bit and criticize CONTENT >of posts -- there is a lot of meat there. > > --- Gary Wiltshire