Re: about criticising other poster's language skills

[Gavin Long]

<dons flame-proof suit to enter a thread that's already getting rather too
heated for a quibble over a couple of

Peter Lairo wrote
[a fairly strident rant re: attitudes to non-native english speakers,
etc.]

While I often disagree with Peter, I have to say that I'm generally with
him on this one.  It's very refreshing to hear a POV like that from an
American (though as Peter mentioned, Brits are often guilty, too)

I don't speak any language other than English to any kind of useful level
(very bad French, even worse German, and I can just about count to five
and say please and thankyou in Italian)

However, that's my problem, not anyone else's, and I appreciate the
efforts of people like Henno to make it possible for me to read their
messages.

<retires to safe distance>

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gav
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