For posting a somewhat helpful, politely toned reply.
I, "evil grin mode on", had some more devilish thoughts since I and just about everyone else posting here has certainly run into a similar type of individual, whose ego will not let them admit that they are hopelessly lost.
I would much prefer to have one tell me that they really don't understand and ask politely to dumb it down for them, than to try and get my head around that kind of post and similar kinds of questions. I re-read it a number of times, and I still don't quite get to the essence of what the person is asking for exactly.
I used to say when I was teaching computer courses that "There is no such thing as a stupid question". I may have to rethink that notion.
James
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James, you should take a crack at his other question....
That was my reaction to the responses to the question. It's not that hard to recognize genuine non-native English. This is nobody's joke. I felt that he deserved to be criticized for the errors in punctuation, spelling, and basic grammar, which are what made it so hard to read, and which could have been easily cleaned up with online resources. But making fun of someone just because they are a beginner in your own language is something only the French traditionally get away with. We anglophones are supposed to be above all that.
English is an extremely difficult language and it's a shame that historical accident has made it the world leader. Cut folks some slack. Our grammar may be somewhat streamlined but our phonetics and our syntax are unfathomable. Just try teaching ANYBODY to pronounce "squirrel," or explaining to them the difference between arriving somewhere "on time" and "in time."
Civilization would advance far more quickly if we were all learning Chinese instead--and if the Chinese would make their written language as ridiculously easy to study as their spoken language. No tense, no number, no gender, no endings, no prepositions, just say what you're thinking.
It always amuses me that the people who think everyone on the planet should be able to just sit down and learn English are the same people who dismiss Chinese as "too difficult" without knowing anything about it.
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http://techrepublic.com.com/5208-11186-0.html?forumID=75&threadID=187109
Either that or some serious drugs were involved in the creation...