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Message ID: 5491
Date: Tue Aug 24 17:55:37 BST 1999
Author: Jamie
Subject: Re: IRL - Languages


Heh, I'm not irritated, I'm surprised :)
Language isn't something you should worry about too much, you can only get
better...or, thats what I thought until I met some of the people who are my
friends now. ; )


Smiling politely - Taluvil
----- Original Message -----
From: Janko Slaten'sek <janko@...>
To: <eqbards@onelist.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 1999 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] IRL - Languages


> From: Janko Slaten'sek <janko@...>
>
>
> Well it's me again. I'm sorry if my appology about my english is bothering
> you but I said that because I mean it. The fact is that I got a few mails
> about my language and they weren't very pleasent to read. If you think my
> english is good enough then I can say just one thing. Thanks god at least
> one. Beleive me this is the first mail in which my english is mentioned as
> something good. So I'll never write that appology about my language again.
> I hope I didn't iritate you to much, If I did then I'm sorry I just wanted
> to help.
>
> Janko
>
>
> On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Jamie wrote:
>
> > From: "Jamie" <bribed@...>
> >
> > Does it ever bother anyone else that people who say, "Sorry if you
couldn't
> > understand, English isn't my first language," often speak more
coherently
> > than about 70 -80% of the people whose first language it is? I mean, I
meet
> > people who have been speaking English their entire lives, and I guess
its
> > just degraded from over use. For all of those people out there who
think
> > they aren't being understood, don't worry about it, chances are you get
your
> > points across more clearly than we naturals do :)
> >
> >
> > Taluvil
> >
> >
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