-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFDDSUNtTMYHG2NR9URAmumAJ0YGAUyGzOvayxRkyDzmKIWAWH2nACgmIIV Q5lo211jBaNYahGJKGgAOIY= =dfY3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----