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From: chiehcheng@iname.com (Chieh Cheng)
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/19
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997 15:01:11 GMT, 70523.3077@compuserve.com (Gary A.
Wiltshire) wrote:

>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

You are absolutely right. I am not very good with English, but I was
speaking for other people who learned their second language must
better than I did. Otherwise, I would have compared him to myself. And
again, you're right. I'll chill out a bit.

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