Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I would be inclined to say "ditto"- I don't mind fractured English; English is a wonderfully resilient means of communication and can take considerable punishment before becoming unintelligible. That's probably why it is almost universal. The complainers might stop and consider- that the writer about whom they complain can usually speak/write English better than the complainer can read/write Swedish/ Dutch/ French/ et al. - -----Original Message----- From: Richard W. Hemingway <n5xrd@juno.com> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Friday, 21 November, 1997 5:54 PM Subject: Really mad! >LUGGERS, > >I have heard that some LUGGERS have been complaining about English >language usage by LUGGERS who are writing in English, which is their >second or maybe their third or fourth language. > >This is intolerable. How many of you who have been complaining have ever >tried to write world wide in the language which is not your native >language??? This takes alot of guts. You should be ashamed of >yourselves! My advice to you is get the heck off the LUG. > >I haven't been this mad for a long time. I don't know how much of a >problem this is, hopefully not much. > >Richard Hemingway >Norman, OK