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Re: Correcting a foreigner (was: CONCULTURE: Ayeri calendar again)

From:Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 9, 2005, 19:25
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, -- Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> Watch the Reply-To!

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