19 Dec
2011
19 Dec
'11
2:02 a.m.
On Dec 18, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Sorry for my broken english, never learned it in a
shool or so, it's
entirely from using unixoid OS's and communicateing with people like you
over the net. Proably it's still better as your german :-)
I had russian in the shool but had never to use it so I forgot most of
it.
Well. It's still better than the written English of most American university students
(I should know, I've had to grade their papers relatively recently; they seem to think
that commas are a kind of condiment for words). I wouldn't worry much about it.
Incidentally, I have a wonderful book on the history of semiconductor engineering
(eponymously titled) by Bo Lojek and published by Springer. It very clearly never got the
attention of a native English-speaking editor, but I found that if I read it with a
Russian (or other Slavic) accent in my head, it made things a lot clearer. For you, if I
read your text with a German accent, it makes perfect sense. :-)
- Dave