MSGID: 2:5075/128.130 4e484c2d
REPLY: 1:153/716.0 1d7c0a55
CHRS: CP866 2
RFC: 1 0
RFC-Message-ID:
RFC-References:
TZUTC: 0300
PID: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/31.7.0
TID: FIDOGATE-5.12-gd687923
Hi, Ardith Hinton!
I read your message from 06.01.2022 23:56
Happy New Year!
DH>> We speak of a brother and also of brethren... [etc.].
ak>> For English learners it should be something more
ak>> positive.;-)
AH> Understood. Okay... in general, and on a more
AH> serious note: 1) My native tongue has simplified
AH> various other inflections which caused a lot of grief when I
AH> was trying to learn French & German. 2) If one
AH> has a dictionary which explains the etymology, i.e. from whom we
AH> borrowed the word, it's easier to understand spellings like "yacht"
AH> & "caught". In short, we borrowed them from different languages.
AH> And once you know words like "scribe" in English, you can make
sense of
AH> headers written by people from Europe who've forgotten to change their
AH> language toggle.... :-))
It is also a big question what percent of all English words is known to
all the people speaking English. ;) So, when speaking English, maybe it
is a good idea to simplify phrases and don't use old fashion words.
Bye, Ardith!
Alexander Koryagin
fido.english_tutor 2022
--- Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101
hunderbird/31.7.0
* Origin: Usenet Network (2:5075/128.130)
SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/0 15/0 30/0 50/109 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 120/340
SEEN-BY: 123/131 129/305 153/7715 154/10 218/700 221/1 6 226/30 227/114
SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 664 700 240/1120 5832 249/206 317 250/25 266/512
SEEN-BY: 282/1038 301/0 1 101 113 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45
SEEN-BY: 450/1024 460/58 463/68 467/888 712/848 920/1 5000/111 5001/100
SEEN-BY: 5005/49 5015/42 46 5019/40 5020/830 846 1042 2047 2140 4441
SEEN-BY: 5053/51 5054/8 5058/104 5064/56 5075/35 128 5080/68 102 5083/1
SEEN-BY: 5083/444
PATH: 5075/128 5020/1042 301/1 229/426
|
