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| From | David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c |
| Subject | Re: This forum has gone to crap |
| Date | 2015-08-26 13:18 +0200 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <mrk779$1dl$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <mrd8lk$bcn$1@dont-email.me> <0be9973f-92f5-49cd-b7e4-a3b4f65d6bb5@googlegroups.com> <26a41171-5f4d-42c3-81a0-574e83cf05ba@googlegroups.com> <mremsf$q0e$1@dont-email.me> <55dcd6c7.6441046@news.xs4all.nl> |
On 25/08/15 23:00, Richard Bos wrote: > David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote: > >> Fir is Polish (AFAIK), thus English is a foreign language to him. > > That is no excuse, and I think I speak with authority when I say that. > > For speaking _stilted_ or non-idiomatic English, yes, being foreign may > be an excuse, although it is often over-used. For intentionally mangling > it beyond all semblance of sanity, sorry, nope. > I agree entirely - and I said as much in my post. My point was that Chad was berating people (Fir in particular) for being bad at writing in English - it did not seem that he has considered the possibility that some people here have English as a foreign language. (There are a few others here who write in a manner that is hard to understand, which I think is due to their limited skills in English rather than being intentionally incomprehensible.)
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Re: This forum has gone to crap David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-23 22:06 +0200
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Re: This forum has gone to crap David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-08-23 22:00 +0200
Re: This forum has gone to crap fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 13:30 -0700
Re: This forum has gone to crap "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 17:34 -0700
Re: This forum has gone to crap Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 00:17 -0700
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Re: This forum has gone to crap Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-08-26 13:45 +0100
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Re: This forum has gone to crap Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 10:12 -0700
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Re: This forum has gone to crap raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-08-25 21:00 +0000
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