Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Wednesday 2005-08-24 at 09:54 +0100, Fergus Wilde wrote:

> You're too modest, Carlos, no-one could complain about your English. And of 
> course, no-one has the right to 'complain' about use of English by non-native 
> speakers, 

Thanks :-)

The trick is that I read a lot.

But remember that our first contact with a second language is most often 
in paper, not by voice as you. We have to memorize words the hard way. I 
never learnt "spelling rules".

> though it would be nice to think native speakers might offer polite 
> guidance when it's likely to be welcome. What's eating me is the raising in 
> England of a vast number of native speakers who aren't given even a basic 
> grounding in the way their own language works. 

Interesting. The same thing has started to happen here: gross spelling 
faults in entry level exams to university are "non fatal" now.


> > It seems to be one of those areas where open sofftware is lacking. Another
> > is optical characer recognition.
> 
> That would be hugely useful, agreed! Any time people are ready ...

Let us hope :-)

(See? I have to write "let us", because I'm unsure if it is "lets" or 
"let's" or whatever ;-) )

- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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