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Subject:Re: Look upon this, and despair! From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:jarnopol <jarnopol -at- interaccess -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:31:53 -0500
That was my first thought when reading the quoted phrases, that English is not
this person's native language. I have noticed that people who come areas with an
entirely different language family often have problems with English syntax, much
more so than those who come from European countries where we at least have a
common language family.
Those of us who grow up speaking English, internalizing all the grammar rules
and idiosyncrasies, tend to forget what a complex language we speak.
Jo Byrd
jarnopol wrote:
> Arlen.P.Walker pointed us to the web site http://www.tips-tricks.com
>
> This is very bad. However, it occurred to me that it might have been
> constructed by a person who is either a non-English speaker or whose native
> language is not English. It has that sort of "foreign" cadence to it. In
> fact, the author of this site is Charnchon Lavitrangsima.
>
> That not withstanding, my personal favourites are:
> "When your web pages were done:"
> "Where to go next" - a link that appears as hypertext but goes nowhere
> "Don't find what you are looking for?"
>
> Actually, the content, although grammatically incorrect, is not too horrid.
>
> just mho,
> janropol
