Re: hello from China

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 13:01:46 +0100, "John of Aix" <j.murphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

|Dave Fawthrop wrote:
|> On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:59:18 +0000, Molly Mockford
|> <nospamnobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|>
|>> At 11:45:01 on Sun, 19 Feb 2006, Joachim Pense
|>> <spam-collector@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
|>> <u9u7ylhsnol5.3t9khqgf73xl.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>:
|>>
|>>> Am Sun, 19 Feb 2006 09:29:54 +0000 schrieb Dave Fawthrop:
|>>>
|>>>> find it much easier to use than Google Groups which IME is by far
|>>>> the worst way of access usenet. You can see only new posts,
|>>>> which *you* haven't
|>>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|>>>
|>>> Is this standard English? Can you please describe this construction
|>>> to me (non-native speaker)?
|>>
|>> No, it's an error. He should have written "of accessing Usenet". He
|>> should also *not* have used a Usenet abbreviation like IME (=in my
|>> experience) when replying to a poster who has only just discovered
|>> Usenet and cannot possibly be expected to know what it means.
|>
|> There are many sites which explain usenet abbreviations.
|> We talk a different dialect of English here.
|
|I think Molly has a fair point here. After all our newcomer wants to
|learn
|English 'as she is spoke' not our dialect, it is hard enough already
|when you are a beginner. It's easy enough to avoid in such cases and is
|a friendly touch.

OPs English is very good, with no more mistakes than you get in an average
usenet post. Making things easy for someone is not conducive to learning.
Setting moderately difficult problems works much better.
--
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk>
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