Re: Not just computer language

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Hello Cor,
Since this is a programming newsgroup I will drop the subject but
thank you for explaining. I was unaware the English language had different
versions. Keep up the good work!
Debbie



"Cor Ligthert" <notmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:OXY%23$TWSFHA.2604@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Debbie,
>
> I agree however as well disagree with you, but your message is helpful. My
> English is based on how I have learned English not American.
>
> To check that, I took just one message from Terry Burns. He is from Thames
> Valley, not far away from Oxford where for us Dutch the best English is
> spoken.
>
> >Ctrl Alt J will open up the object browser, and you can find all the
> >classes
> >in your assembly
>
> When I understand your message well, than you would have written something
> as.
> Ctrl Alt J opens the object browser and you find than all the classes in
> your assembly
>
> I have learned to do it in the way as Terry writes. While by instance, the
> way you write, looks very much on grammatical Dutch. Maybe you think that
it
> is therefore easier for me. No when I write English, I am thinking in
> English. It can be that I overdo it now and therefore I will keep an eye
on
> it in future and am thankful for your message.
>
> The sentence about Dutch was that I skip in Dutch as well many words when
I
> quickly write a message. I am busy with the next sentence when the first
is
> not even ready. Than I correct it, however set than the words in the wrong
> sequence. A message like yours is than good to point me again on that.
>
> However, I wrote first "...that I am skipping in Dutch as well many words
> when I am writing quickly". Now I changed it, so maybe your message has
> success and let me write in a more popular way in this newsgroup.
>
> The message concerning Herfried was that I was using more for us both
known
> keywords than language. Because Herfried understands those keywords, has
it
> less sense to write it in a way that everybody understands it. Maybe I
> unconscious think too much, that because Herfried understands as much
> languages as I, that the correct grammatical use is less important. You
are
> right when you now want to tell that more people read those messages, but
> sometimes it gives than in my opinion a too long messages to explain
> everything and is than for Herfried without any sense.
>
> The "when/if" error is something somebody else showed me as well. That is
an
> error hard to overcome. While grammatical in Dutch, it is as well not
> correct, are we using that often and therefore I probably make that error
in
> English as well quiet easy, even if I keep an eye on it (I wrote first
> "when"). :-)
>
> >I make wrtiting errors often but since this is a newsgroup and not a
> >document I don't really care.
>
> I do not understand what you want to tell me with this last sentence from
> you. However, the last part is not true. I don't care about it in the same
> way as if it was a document.
>
> :-)
>
> Thank you
>
> Cor
>
>
>


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