Monday, November 22, 1999
Hello Pasquale,
Monday, Monday, November 22, 1999, you wrote:
Pasquale> Hello Alexander,
Pasquale> 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)
Pasquale> What slangs do you not understand?, send e-mail to me privately and
Pasquale> I'll help on the slangs I know. Now I'll will dust off my OLD high
Pasquale> school russian / english dictionary.
I saw on the net that there seems to be a decent translator around
(Alex probably disagrees with the decent part) but that might help
you as well. I havent seen it but it was mentioned somewhere.
ref slang:
I think there is some USA slang dictionary around.
But again Alex, not sure that would be of any use.
Some people write difficult english, others donot and I am sure its
the same in any Language.
Best regards,
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