A Perspective on D from game industry
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digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jun 16 23:03:54 PDT 2014
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 04:03:23 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 6/17/2014 12:16 PM, Caligo via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> My rant wasn't about his lack of fluency in the English
>> language. You
>> only learn once what a sentence is, and the concept translates
>> over to
>> most other natural languages. The same is true with the
>> concept of
>> constructing a paragraph. Even if he's not a native English
>> speaker,
>> I'm willing to bet that his writings in his mother tongue are
>> just as
>> bad. Just ask professors how often they encounter poor quality
>> writings that were produced by native speakers. And FWIW, I'm
>> not a
>> native English speaker either. I'm multilingual, and I don't
>> use that
>> fact as an excuse for anything.
>>
>
> I completely disagree with all this. I've been teaching English
> (and also Debate) in Korea for 20 years at all levels of
> ability, from beginner to advanced. I've taught preschoolers,
> primary school students, university students, housewives,
> laborers, office workers, teachers, business executives and
> more. I also frequently edit documents that have already been
> translated from Korean to English, cleaning them up to make
> them more readable to native speakers. I can tell you without
> hesitation that there are a great many people who write very
> well in Korean and have a good spoken command of English, but
> who manage to construct some unintelligible English sentences
> when they write. The ability to write well in a native language
> and/or to speak well in a foreign language does not translate
> to an equivalent ability in a foreign language (particularly
> when there is an extreme difference in grammar between the two).
Very true. I often find myself stuck in the middle of the spoken
sentence because I start building up a phrase in a similar way
like I would have done in Russian and suddenly realize that
result does not make any sense at all when applied to English.
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