From: Daniel Martin <martin@...>
Date: 2006-10-23T22:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: A Comparison Of Dynamic and Static Languiges

gwtmp01@mac.com writes:

> No comment on the whole homework issue, but I think it is important
> to keep in mind that not everyone on the Internet has English as their
> first language.
>
> I can only imagine what sort of comments would be generated by the
> native speakers if we all had to post to ruby-talk in Japanese.

Well, as a non-native speaker I'd begin all my postings with:

Sumimasen. Nihongo wa watashi ga sukoshi hanashimas.
(eego to deutsugo hanashimas)

That is, I'd *explicitly disclaim* my ability to speak Japanese.

atbusbook@aol.com has been around before (search google groups for his
various inspired postings on different languages); from his phonetic
misspellings, I'd say that he's almost certainly a native speaker of
American English using one of the more common dialects (one of the
"Midland" or "West" dialects).

-- 
s=%q(  Daniel Martin -- martin@snowplow.org
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]       )
       puts "s=%q(#{s})",s.map{|i|i}[1]