Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:03:35 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be> To: Juergen Nickelsen <jnickelsen@acm.org>, Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <v04220809b51a234d27f8@[195.238.1.121]> In-Reply-To: <x7ln2j4imw.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de> References: <20000411195029.00602@techunix.technion.ac.il> <x7ln2j4imw.fsf@goting.jn.berlin.snafu.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 2:18 PM +0200 2000/4/12, Juergen Nickelsen wrote: > Another several years later I am still sometimes baffled by a > sentence where my parser has to backtrack two or three times. I've been a native speaker/reader/writer of English for more than thirty years, and I still have this problem. While no one has accused me of being an expert in the English language, its syntax, or grammar, I hold myself to what I consider to be some relatively high standards in terms of the quality of my writing. Heck, some sentences are even semi-readable. ;-) Seriously, people approach linguistic perfection asymptotically, and some get a lot closer than others, even within the category of "native speakers". Regardless, just because of stylistic differences, it may be more or less difficult for native speakers to comprehend what some other native speaker has said or written. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, <blk@skynet.be> || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?v04220809b51a234d27f8>