> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Johannes Gebauer Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:38 AM To: > [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] left hand, right hand > abbreviation > > On 16.02.2007 Guy Hayden wrote: > > German l.h. (linkshande) and r.h. > > (rechthande). > > If you do, please do it correctly. As a matter of fact lh and rh is > English, not German, German would be l.H. and r.H., and it means > "linke Hand" and " rechte Hand". > > linkshande and rechtshande are no words in German. > On 16 Feb 2007 at 2:42, Guy Hayden wrote: > > I don't know why I even bothered.
What's your point here? You were wrong, in a relatively minor way, but wrong, nonetheless. Why would you not be grateful for a correction from a native German speaker? I learned German a long time ago, but I recognize that I am missing a lot of the details and am always grateful for corrections from people like Johannes because I recognize that I can't possibly have the same depth of understanding of the language that a native speaker does. What truly amazes me is the idiomatic written English of folks like Johannes -- if I didn't know that he was not a native English speaker, I don't think I could detect it from his postings on the list. That humbles me whenever I think I have something to say about the German language -- I'm not even in the same universe as Johannes when it comes to second-language proficiency. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
