Re: Correcting a foreigner (was: CONCULTURE: Ayeri calendar again)
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 19:25 |
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On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 23:47:52 +0200, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> I personally would prefer to be corrected privately. I still don't know how
> to react at Adrian Morgan's commentary on Monday, January 31, 2005 2:34 PM:
> <<I gotta ask what a homosexualist is. Someone who believes in
> homosexuals?>>
> Is this intended to mean that my English in most cases is so much good that
> a minor mistake must be mocked in public?
I didn't interpret it as a mock, but simply as a joke based on a
supposed misspeaking, such as might have been made when a native
English speaker had slipped up in his morphology.
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
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