Oh, knowing how bad I am at the only non-English language I'm even vaguely able to communicate in (Italian), I'd agree about not making fun of any English - as - second - language speaker! and they do say that English is one of the hardest languages to learn, because it's so inconsistent. Is it bad that I always take measurements in imperial, then convert them to metric to use them / buy fabric / whatever? Well.....living in the country that's probably the worst for using both systems at once.... (UK). In a message dated 07/05/2008 19:01:22 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I hire college students to intern in the museum for which I work, and as part of the application process I require that they submit a college-level paper so that I can see how well they write (writing is part of the job). And the one person who wrote the most beautifully in the seven years I've been doing this was a native Danish speaker. The American college students couldn't write their way out of a paper bag. Quite frightening, actually.... (Even more frightening is that most of them can't identify the parts of a ruler or do basic fractions-- also things the job requires since we hang art to specific measurements. Meanwhile, my Danish student did all her calculations in metric and then converted them--correctly--to Imperial.) Astrida _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
