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Date:         Mon, 11 Sep 1995 13:15:29 GMT
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From:         vw@gulbransen.com (Vw)
Subject:      RE: US vs WE



> Rusty,
>         Be good.  Let people write how they may.  In context, you'd be
> surprised how much Spanish or Swahili you'd be able to understand, 
> Sahib.  We are negotiating between machine and people.  That is this 
> list.  Let's not scare our non-english speakers off of the list.  Many
> of them have probably learned how to write english better than us. 
> Gary Gibson                                                    ^^
                                                                 ^^
Gary,                                                            ^^
                                                                 ^^
I will correct your English once. Your last sentence should read:


"Many of them have probably learned how to write English better than
we do." The pronoun "us" is resevered for accusative and dative
cases.  Also, English should always be capitalized (in English, but
not in Spanish).








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