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On 8/13/2011 3:17 AM, Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 13.08.2011 11:58, MaciekL wrote:
>
>> I have a doubt because Java disables synchronization of the constructor
>> by default.
>
> Btw, it's "question" and not "doubt". Side note: I see this quite often.
> Does anybody have an idea why non native speakers often use "doubt"
> instead of "question"? I'm not a native speaker myself but I can't
> remember having mixed up the two. So I guess it has to do with the way
> English is taught or the mother tongue.
...

It is a matter of English being a language with many dialects. I'm very
aware of this, because I grew up in England but live in California. The
American dialect of English has many differences from my mother tongue,
an English dialect of English.

One of the strangest is the term "British" for my dialect, which makes
no sense at all. There are numerous dialects of English spoken in the
British Isles. Some of them are more different than American from my
mother tongue. Also, there are several Gaelic languages that are just as
British as any dialect of English.

I've learned from this newsgroup that in some dialects, "doubt" is used
slightly more widely than in English and American dialects.

This newsgroup works largely because of the proportion of Java
programmers around the world who know some dialect of English well
enough to write questions and answers in it. It would be less effective
if we insisted on any one dialect as the only right way to write English.

Patricia