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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: "John Rickard" Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/19 Message-ID: <64vdko$88b@bgtnsc02.worldnet.att.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 290961343 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <34566fe9.447229@news.mindspring.com> <345673af.1413708@news.mindspring.com> <3456A374.5BF2@public.hz.zj.cn> <347067B8.46@lysator.liu.se> <64qllr$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> <32nusbR98GA.70@news2.ingr.com> Organization: AT&T WorldNet Services 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: They assumed I was american BECAUSE I mentioned the fact I was in I beleive the 2nd post I made in my defense. -- -- Remove "spam" from my email address to send me REAL email. -- Dennis Weldy wrote in article <32nusbR98GA.70@news2.ingr.com>... : 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 : : :