There are lots of people who write to LBO who are not native speakers. I'm one. Haaki was another one. Woj is another one. There's nothing wrong with his English.
I was just pointing out that for someone who wants to work with reality, he was using very unreal language.
Joanna
Carrol Cox wrote:
>Victor wrote:
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>>Thanks for the suggestions.
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>>From: "Dick Grippon"
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>>>At 06:01 AM 10/25/2005, Victor wrote to Joanna: [clip]
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>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos [clip]
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>Come on, K. Victor
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>(a) is not wholly familiar with English idiom -- which still leaves him
>better at English than you and I are with Russian.
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>and
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>(b) Isn't LBO varied enough to take one (allegedly) patronizing style or
>two.
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>I think I'm going to have some disagreements with Victor, but the
>greeting he got from you and Joanna does not contribute to list
>discussion. Joanna obviously stopped reading before she got to the
>parts of his post that were severely critical of Mao.
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>Carrol
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