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The difficulties of judging a language which you don't speak natively (wa...

From:Doug Dee <amateurlinguist@...>
Date:Saturday, May 29, 2004, 15:28
In a message dated 5/29/2004 3:36:54 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
uaxuctum@YAHOO.ES writes:

>Then, bluntly put: that 'gentleman' is stupid - I have just provided >the examples that prove it. But his bio offers a clarifying bit: he >studied _English_ philology, apparently getting so dazzled at that >the different features he found in English that he was blinded into >believing them "superior". I'm sending him an e-mail right now, so >that he corrects the rubbish he published.
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