Hello Alexander,
Sunday, November 21, 1999, 4:12:02 PM, you wrote:
AVK> Hi there!
AVK> On 21 Nov 99, at 9:53, Steve Lamb wrote
AVK> about "Re: (No Subject)":
>> Sunday, November 21, 1999, 6:36:55 AM, Alexander wrote:
>> > *many* people on this list *do not* understand your American
>> > slang
>>
>> Funny, I'm not using slang in the least bit.
AVK> Funny, then how comes that I hardly understand *you* when
AVK> *clearly* understanding Paula Ford and (most of the time) Ali
AVK> Martin? Of cause, my English is quite limited (besides, I
AVK> presume *your* Russian is even worse then that, am I right?:-
AVK> )), but it *needn't* be better then it is. I have *no need* in better
AVK> English at all: almost all non-Russian-speaking mathematicians
AVK> I'm communicating with routinely speak English even worse
AVK> then I do; morethanthat, we usually clearly understand each
AVK> other.
AVK> Besides, my level of understanding English (based on my own
AVK> experience on the good number of English-speaking mailing
AVK> lists) shows, that you're probably the only *native* English-
AVK> speaker whose English is (sometimes) hard for me to
AVK> understand. (Oh, pardon, there's one Australian on Pegasus
AVK> mailing list too, but that's a completely other story: he just hates
AVK> to use commas and periods:-) Kind of I know all the words he
AVK> uses, but it's extremely hard to gain the meaning:-)))
AVK> I know absolutely *no* American slang, but basing on the
AVK> above-stated thoughts I came to the strong conclusion that it's
AVK> slang that I'm finding myself hard to understand in your
AVK> postings. If I'm wrong here, my apologies directly to you.
AVK> SY, Alex
AVK> (St.Petersburg, Russia)
What slangs do you not understand?, send e-mail to me privately and
I'll help on the slangs I know. Now I'll will dust off my OLD high
school russian / english dictionary.
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