From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Euro-English
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 16:45:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030806234511.GH21290@matchmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030806231403.GF1380@pegasys.ws>
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:14:03PM -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:16:51AM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> > > >If zis mad yu smil, pleas pas it on to oza pepl.
> > >
> > > Chuckle... Some people have way too much time on their hands. :-)
> > Oh, come on, it really points something out.
> > Europe is a place where everybody speaks bad english :)
> > And people who know english and bad english tend to use bad english.
>
> As you have just done ;)
>
> I also disagree. Many in Europe speak English much better
> than those born to it.
Yes, I have to agree also. I am a native english speaker, and I have an
Arabic friend who knows english many times better than I do. Though he does
come to me to make sure his phrases are in acceptable according to modern
english (ie, slang and common phrases).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-06 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-05 23:33 Euro-English Mike Fedyk
2003-08-06 0:14 ` Euro-English Gene Heskett
2003-08-06 0:49 ` [OT] Euro-English Mike Fedyk
2003-08-06 9:16 ` Euro-English Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-06 23:14 ` Euro-English jw schultz
2003-08-06 23:45 ` Mike Fedyk [this message]
2003-08-07 0:37 ` Euro-English Timothy Miller
2003-08-07 10:16 ` [OT] Euro-English Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-07 10:39 ` Dick Streefland
2003-08-07 14:19 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-08-08 1:01 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-08-08 10:50 ` Maciej Soltysiak
2003-08-08 12:10 ` Marcus Metzler
2003-08-09 0:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-06 2:06 ` Euro-English Valdis.Kletnieks
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