<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> I wasn't criticizing the person, I just wanted to know who the person was on the other side of that wall of words. I'm always happy to have a new writer on LBO. 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: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid435E538B.5A1770E9@ilstu.edu"> <pre wrap=""> Victor wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Thanks for the suggestions. From: "Dick Grippon" </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">At 06:01 AM 10/25/2005, Victor wrote to Joanna: [clip] </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos">http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos</a> [clip] Come on, K. Victor (a) is not wholly familiar with English idiom -- which still leaves him better at English than you and I are with Russian. and (b) Isn't LBO varied enough to take one (allegedly) patronizing style or two. 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. Carrol ___________________________________ <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>