Re: Re: A82: Thoughts on Break Dance...
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Re: Re: A82: Thoughts on Break Dance...
for the last time this an calc. list not an english list FORGET ABOUT IT!!
Maybe someone should e-mail the ti-calc.org and tell them to make an english
list maybe this would be better for everyone! GET AN LIFE!!!
At 10:26 PM 2/18/98 +0100, you wrote:
>
>WARNING : The following mail might contain misspelled words, bad English...
>
>Several times since I joined this list people have written to me
>complaining about my English, and until now I have ignored it, but after
>all the messages about Break Dance I am not going to do this anymore.
>
>It is, of course, pretty easy for Americans to write good English but if
>you are not used to write English it is actually pretty hard. I am trying
>to write the best English that I can, but it does not look like it is
>enough.
>
>I can understand that people ask question if they are not able to
>understand what I am writing, but most of the time the mistakes that
>people are complaining about are very small. Someone mail me telling me
>that me English was impossible to understand, mainly because I spelled
>routine without an o. I do not mind that people ask question if they can
>not understand what I am writing, but I do not like if people fell they
>have to correct every spelling mistake I ever made.
>
>When I am replying to someone email I think that it is more important
>wether it takes 1 day or 1 week, than wether routines is spelled with an o
>or not. If you do not feel that way, try mailing someone from the US.
>
>As it is very unlikely that my English will get a lot better over night,
>the only solution I can see to the problem is to stop writing in English
>(I am much better at spelling in Danish) :-).
>
>When I release a program, I spend time on writing some documentation, and
>I also try to document the source code so other people can understand what
>it is the code does. However I am not sure wether I will continue doing
>this as long as I receive so many comments about my spelling. Why should I
>maintain an Ash School, if my English is impossible to understand ?
>
>Dines
>
>BTW some spaces might look like an underscore, that is not my fault, the
>email program made them when i pressed space.
>_______________________________________
>
>Dines Justesen
>Email: dines@post1.com or
> c958362@student.dtu.dk
>WWW : http://www.gbar.dtu.dk/~c958362/
>_______________________________________
>
>
-Ryan (Schony) Schonhoff