Re: TR:UK - does good English matter?

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 15:41:07 +0000, Tony Polson <tp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have lost count of how many times I have been castigated for my
usage. It seems that educated Americans (oxymoron candidate?) are
much stricter about grammar than people here.

Tony, the ultimate put down is to be told by a Russian interpreter
that he cannot translate a clause in a contract, because it is not
clear to what the subordinate clause refers. I had to re-write that
one on behalf of our lawyers, who were covered in confusion.

Mind you, the one who agreed to use the Code Napoleon for a contract
in Romania, and then asked the lawyer on the other side if he could
borrow her copy, as he didn't have his with him, was a master of
getting himself out of scrapes. He was a fly-fishing Finn, who lived
on the bank of the Test, with a stretch of his own riparian rights.
--
Terry Harper
Website Coordinator, The Omnibus Society
http://www.omnibussoc.org
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