Re: Tone-of-voice used by sponsors
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 04:58:13PM +0100, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> I often find the lists that Daniel posts to resemble commands "remove
> this.", "do not do that", "this is bogus", "that is useless" but lacking
> of background or guidance.
This might be a language problem. I am also a native speaker of
German, and I observe myself to come over a lot more harsh than
intended when I write english. I mean, German is the language that
makes "I love you" sound like a declaration of war. Misunderstandings
like that happen.
Greetings
Marc
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