montmorencyt2w
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Dear AlphaDawg,
Thank you for your kind words, but I am afraid the posting admiration cannot be mutual - I am with Wasp, and others in favour of the English language as she is traditionally written.
Your original posting was fair enough, in content at least, despite the disagreeable metaphors and lamentable quality of English. But you did not live up to your "early promise".
One can get away with being rude and disagreeable to people when one has a track-record of achievement, e.g. Sir Alan Sugar, or Gordon Ramsay (I like Sugar, as it happens; can't stand Ramsay, but he is an achiever). When one has no proven record, it's safer to be a bit more respectful, especially when among those who probably know a bit more about life than you do. This respect extends to respect for the English language. I've seen people whose first language wasn't English post perfectly respectable sentences with apologies for them. If your first language is English (which I presume that it is) then you are showing yourself up, compared to people who try a lot harder than you do to be properly understood. If you can't learn this, you will not learn anything.
Regards,
M.
Thank you for your kind words, but I am afraid the posting admiration cannot be mutual - I am with Wasp, and others in favour of the English language as she is traditionally written.
Your original posting was fair enough, in content at least, despite the disagreeable metaphors and lamentable quality of English. But you did not live up to your "early promise".
One can get away with being rude and disagreeable to people when one has a track-record of achievement, e.g. Sir Alan Sugar, or Gordon Ramsay (I like Sugar, as it happens; can't stand Ramsay, but he is an achiever). When one has no proven record, it's safer to be a bit more respectful, especially when among those who probably know a bit more about life than you do. This respect extends to respect for the English language. I've seen people whose first language wasn't English post perfectly respectable sentences with apologies for them. If your first language is English (which I presume that it is) then you are showing yourself up, compared to people who try a lot harder than you do to be properly understood. If you can't learn this, you will not learn anything.
Regards,
M.