No comment on the whole homework issue, but I think it is important
to keep in mind that not everyone on the Internet has English as their
first language.
I can only imagine what sort of comments would be generated by the
native speakers if we all had to post to ruby-talk in Japanese.
Gary Wright
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On Oct 21, 2006, at 2:40 PM, Paul Lutus wrote:
2. But first, learn how to assemble paragraphs into articles.
3. But first, learn how to assemble sentences into paragraphs.
4. But first, learn how to assemble words into sentences.
5. But first, learn how to assemble letters into words.
gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
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No comment on the whole homework issue, but I think it is important
to keep in mind that not everyone on the Internet has English as their
first language.
That could apply in this case, but in my experience, non-native speakers
tend to acquire better basic skills before posting. This is almost
certainly the case of a native speaker who has spent his life watching
television rather than reading books.
An indicator for this is familiarity with words based on how they sound
rather than how they look. An example would be someone chronically unable
to distinguish between "sight", "site", and "cite" (one of my pet peeves).
I can only imagine what sort of comments would be generated by the
native speakers if we all had to post to ruby-talk in Japanese.
Yes, myself included. On the other hand, who among us would dare?
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gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:
No comment on the whole homework issue, but I think it is important
to keep in mind that not everyone on the Internet has English as their
first language.
How many of those posting their class homework from AOL.com are
allegedly English speakers though?
I try to be tolerant of non-native speakers, but if it walks like
Beavis and Butthead and quacks like them too...
gwtmp01@mac.com writes:
No comment on the whole homework issue, but I think it is important
to keep in mind that not everyone on the Internet has English as their
first language.
I can only imagine what sort of comments would be generated by the
native speakers if we all had to post to ruby-talk in Japanese.
Well, as a non-native speaker I'd begin all my postings with:
Sumimasen. Nihongo wa watashi ga sukoshi hanashimas.
(eego to deutsugo hanashimas)
That is, I'd *explicitly disclaim* my ability to speak Japanese.
atbusbook@aol.com has been around before (search google groups for his
various inspired postings on different languages); from his phonetic
misspellings, I'd say that he's almost certainly a native speaker of
American English using one of the more common dialects (one of the
"Midland" or "West" dialects).
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s=%q( Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1] )
puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]