[Seaside] More transaction rambling (getting OT)
Jimmie Houchin
seaside@lists.squeakfoundation.org
Sat, 06 Jul 2002 10:29:44 -0500
While our education system is poor, it is due to the fact that most
Americans are mono-lingual. It is therefore often conceptually difficult
for us to think in multiple languages. This is true even for the
educated among us.
I am always amazed and appreciative of the fact that so many
non-English-native people can communicate reasonably well in English. I
am also so incredibly amazed and saddened by the tremendous numbers of
native English speaking people who communicate so poorly.
I myself like most Americans am mono-lingual. I do hope to take up
Spanish soon.
I always enjoy seeing pronunciation helps for foreign names. I always
like to try to say names in my head when reading them. I used to
mispronounce Cees in my head. I used to think Cees = 'sees'. Then when
Cees went to New York and visited with Paul (I think), Paul in a message
offered pronunciation help for Cees name. Cees = 'case'. Makes things
interesting.
Jimmie Houchin
Cees de Groot wrote:
> Frank Sergeant wrote:
> > I hope that helps.
>
> Yup. Thanks.
>
>> English is hell. I am constantly amazed at the excellent English spoken
>> (at least written) by the "foreigners" on newsgroups and mailing lists.
>>
>
> That's probably more of an indication how bad education is in the UK and
> US these days than how good we foreigners are at it (we're only
> relatively excellent ;-)).