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McQ
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USA
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 Posted - 06/29/2006 : 18:38:05 [Permalink]
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Still, in whatever language a person chooses to express himself (and rudeonline chose to write in English), doing so clearly is vital in getting a point across, especially when trying to make a very controversial point.
Maybe if one doesn't have all the tools at hand, one shouldn't take on the job.
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Amen to that! Oops. Did I say "Amen"? (cough cough) What I meant was, "I agree wholeheartedly!" 
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 19:21:29 [Permalink]
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I frequently make use of a spell-checking plug-in for Internet Explorer.
www.iespell.com is free of charge and easy to install and use.
Though, most of the time the spell checker flags more often in quoted sections than in the text I've written myself. I only wish it also had a grammar-check, since there are distinct differences between my own language, Swedish, and English.
Still, I make a point double checking stuff like affect/effect and than/then. Those are pet peeves. |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 19:37:38 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I frequently make use of a spell-checking plug-in for Internet Explorer.
www.iespell.com is free of charge and easy to install and use.
Though, most of the time the spell checker flags more often in quoted sections than in the text I've written myself. I only wish it also had a grammar-check, since there are distinct differences between my own language, Swedish, and English.
Still, I make a point double checking stuff like affect/effect and than/then. Those are pet peeves.
I'm afraid I have no idea what you're getting at. Could you please parse that once again, Dr. Mabuse?
Seriously, though: You do make a good and successful effort to write in a non-native language, one without phonetic (or even much rules-based) spelling, and with many odd grammatical ends and outs. In fact, many of us native English writers are far worse at writing the language of Shakespeare than you are. Thanks for making the effort! Thanks to Siberia (and others) also for making the same kind of effort!
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Snake
SFN Addict
USA
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 21:49:28 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
I make a point double checking stuff like affect/effect and than/then. Those are pet peeves.
Seriously, though: You do make a good and successful effort to write in a non-native language, one without phonetic (or even much rules-based) spelling, and with many odd grammatical ends and outs.
That's one of my pet peeves too. However, so many people on e-groups and websites, etc., spend far too much time being picky about small mistakes when it's usually clear what the poster means. Which takes away from the subject of the post. I'm more concerned about errors in news papers or on broadcasts where professionals are supposed to really know better. One sees mistakes there more than should be.
And if anyone thinks English is difficult because it has too many odd rules, try learning Thai. Besides the tones there are many times a letter at the end of a word does not have the sound that it's supposed to and you just sort of have to know what to say.
It's like living in a parallel universe where there's no time.
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 06/29/2006 : 22:03:11 [Permalink]
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The twin paradox...
Most people seem to miss the paradox part.
Assume one of the twins took off on a space ship and was traveling at 99.9% the speed of light. If the twin on earth could see a clock on the space ship it would be moving in super slow motion.
The paradox is (because of relativity) that if the twin on the space ship could see a clock on earth it would be going in slow motion too! This occurs because the earth is traveling at 99.9% the speed of light relative to the space ship.
So why does the twin on the ship age less than the twin on earth. At this point it gets a little ugly - it is because the inertial frame of the space ship twin accelerates and decelerates relative to the earth bound twins inertial frame. |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/30/2006 : 14:55:22 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Seriously, though: You do make a good and successful effort to write in a non-native language, one without phonetic (or even much rules-based) spelling, and with many odd grammatical ends and outs. In fact, many of us native English writers are far worse at writing the language of Shakespeare than you are.
Thanks! quote:
Thanks for making the effort!
It's my pleasure. I dream of a day to come when I write my own sci-fi novel in English. The language skill I'm developing is an important tool for that event. quote:
Thanks to Siberia (and others) also for making the same kind of effort!
I think Siberia is much more impressive. I studied English 2 hours/week in school for 8 years as a foreign language, then one semester at the university.
Siberia is self-taught.
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You know, my spell checker insist on flagging for "HalfMooner"  |
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