Re: NATLANG: English Homework - Keeping alive languages of minorities?
| From: | Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 7, 2005, 18:55 |
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On Sunday 06 March 2005 23:39 +0100, Sally Caves wrote:
> > 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.
Oh. So I'm sorry and apologize.
> 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.
I will do so. And wanting to help, i.e. constructive
critisism, is never disgraceful! I just thought you just
accidentally sent both replies to me privately.
> > 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." :)
I *hate* idioms ... :-P
Carsten
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