On 10 September 2014 10:30, Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:

> One can speak German in English:  "I have been writing Rexx since ten years."

Or French, and probably Spanish:  "I am writing Rexx since ten years."

And another French giveaway: "It's not because he knows FORTRAN that
he can write good REXX."  Which doesn't sound like bad English until
you realize that it's intended to mean that he *cannot* write good
REXX.

Tony H.

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