Joe Zeff wrote: >> that i should set my focus to a perfect english and political correctness >> instead technical facts? sorry, my day has only 24 hours > > No. Some of the people who didn't grow up speaking English are better > at it than you, but you're quite understandable. Not only that, there > are a few on this list who I presume grew up with it that aren't as good > as it as you are. Don't worry about it. > > And, to answer another question, the word "I" in English does mean > "ich," but in English, proper nouns are always capitalized. I agree with you completely re Reindl. But I don't agree with your grammatical advice. "I" is always capitalized, but not "you", "he", etc. I don't believe there is any logical reason for this, as indeed for much english grammar. "It just growed." I find my German friends (could equally well be "german friends"?) all know far more about english grammar than I do, believing that English is a dialect of German, rather than a random mixture of incompatible languages. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
