Re: NATLANG: English Homework - Keeping alive languages of minorities?

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From: "Carsten Becker" <naranoieati@...>


> Hey Sally! <-- My non-English bias creeps in here again ;-)
>
> I hope you don't mind when I post this directly to the list?
I guess I thought that since I sent it to you privately that it would be
understood in netiquette land that you deal with it privately, and not
publish it to the list without my permission.  But what's done is done; I
don't think what I said was disgraceful but it was more aimed at guiding you
rhetorically than at discussing the issues that the list is now discussing.
Next time, Carsten, please ask before you post.

Sally

> > Just trying to help!  Good luck with this, Carsten.  Your
> > English is excellent!!  Just a few idiomatic
> > awkwardnesses here and there, but you are so far beyond
> > my spoken German!!
>
> Heh, thank you. At least *one* glimpse of light ... can you
> acutally say that in English? "Wenigstens *ein*
> Lichtblick?"
We say "a ray of hope," or "light at the end of the tunnel."  :)

S.