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Proof-readers...PLEASE

Starter: mailmandude Posted: 22 years ago Views: 776
#41930
Lvl 12
I don't mean to be rude to Senja, but it seems that every response he has made to any thread includes misspellings and bad grammar. If English is not his mother tongue, then I apologize for my insensitivity and I applaud him for his efforts. I believe a quality site like WBW, which is visited by many, many people worldwide every day should have a professional presentation, including a lack of mistakes from the moderators. Every aspect of the site is first class, but when you see such graffiti posted from one of the moderators, it doesn't instill much respect for the site itself. Am I alone on this one, people?
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#41931
Senja is from the Netherlands, where they speak Dutch primarily.
#41932
Lvl 13
maybe you ought to be looking at amazon.com instead if you are more interested in spelling and grammar.
#41933
Lvl 14
we speak dutch ? i thought we only spoke english hehe..
i'v been talking english for years now.. playing games online were u only got english talking friends.. so u have to know english.. tho sometimes i don't know how to write something to.. hate that..
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#41934
Lvl 13
everyone world wide should speak perfect english. everyone should type perfectly. what garbage. how many different dialects do we have in the u.s.? gice credit to those from other countries that struggle with english to accomodate us americans. without their efforts we could not be part of this site. maybe senja can teach me to speak his language so i can better communicate with those beautiful dutch girls.
#41935
Lvl 22
i just want to say to you not everyone lives in USA as you think, the world is not in USA it's all over the world. We all speak difrent languages and we all try to do our best on the site and you start bitching about english.

I dare you to come and talk to me DUTCH, BOSNIAN, GERMAN. becose some of us have other mother languages and in my case i have two, so english is not my 2nd language but 3th!
#41936
Lvl 22
hmmm is it just me or are the americans (and some others) confusing english and...say american? English is a mother tongue for more people than just americans! Call me crazy but i think brits speak it a little too...Indians...Singaporeans...

Altho i agree with the rest..Kudos for anyone who tries to bridge the language gap! and again this aint Amazon.com! So it doesnt matter terribly!
#41937
Lvl 17
Sometimes people just are rude even if they didn't mean to...
And yes, english isn't senjas first linguage, it's his what, second or third?
It's a bit different thing when you live in europe or in northern america, for various reasons (mostly because of the Brits) your native language has become a well known widely spoken language around the world, and all basics of computer technology and internet are in english for reasons I'm not going to explain here.

Many europeans have to learn multiple languages just for having a job, and to go on holidays! When you have to be ablo to speak atleast two languages, preferrably three or four, you just don't give a s*it about the grammar of your text unless it's too important.

As a Canadian you should understand this, afterall, isn't it a bi-lingual country?

I have studiet four foreign languages in school my self, english, swedish, german and russia. English just is the strongest of them, but in the other three, I can't do as well as senja does in english.

But yeah, maby enough for this subject?
#41938
Lvl 18
LB! as long if you know what people trying to tell you it is good
#41939
Lvl 26
It isn't mine too :P My english is most of the time bad (mostly when I have 8 or 10 hours programming after me).. But If somebody has spare money to hire a translater for us, be my guest :P
#41940
Lvl 19
What?... Do all assholes come from Canada?

The n00b has alot of balls, R E S P E C T.

Senja, we love ya man!
#41941
Lvl 12
Quote:
It isn't mine too :P My english is most of the time bad (mostly when I have 8 or 10 hours programming after me).. But If somebody has spare money to hire a translater for us, be my guest :P


You misspelled "Translator"

oh the irony!


[edited the smilie to look more apropiate]

and diz.. this smilie "" still looks like a farmer with a toothache.
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#41942
Lvl 26
Vamp: WTF! :P
#41943
Lvl 12
Alrighty, then. Senja is from the Netherlands and his first language is probably Dutch. For those of you who clued into the "...I applaud him for his efforts..." part, good for you. If you chose to ignore the "...I apologize for my insensitivity..." and you went off on a rant, good for you, too, making full use of a top-notch forum on a great website. My question was answered fully, and I'm happy to be part of the WBW community. Thank you all for your input.

P.S. Not all the assholes come from Canada; we only have a population of 40 000 000, but that's another thread for another day.
#41944
Lvl 14
He mailmamdude,
My english is bad but your expression of using the right words is also not one of the best. But you are right when you say my english is not very good. But i have an excuse for it, I'm word blind. Not a very big problem for me just fore others like you maybe. But i try to make myself understandable and i think i do. Like i said before on the forum in another topic, It was for me 5 years ago that i WROTE english so i'm a little bit rusty but it comes bit by bit back.

For all the others thx for your reply's


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