Marechiare wrote:
> I wrote (couse I love English :-)

If you're going to be this pedantic about other people's use of english,
someone is going to pick apart what you wrote too.  In only 33 characters
you managed to mess up 3 times.

First "couse" isn't a word.  Sometimes, particularly when spoken, something
similar would be short for "because".  That short form when written should
be 'cause.  "Couse" is just wrong, at least in this part of the world.
Perhaps its one of those color/colour things, but I think not.

Second, since ":-)" is clearly a emoticon, you left out the closing
parenthesis.

Third, there should be a colon at the end.  Obviously you do know this since
you later wrote:

> You reacted (do you love English?):

If you're not familiar with the phrase "People that live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones", look it up.


The point here is not really about your poorly written line, but twofold:

1 - Picking apart other people's use of language at this level on a
    international list is pointless at best, and possibly insulting.

2 - You're hardly a judge of good english usage, not that we need one
    anyway.

This is a technical list used by engineers, not a writer's club.  If someone
proclaims that a 100 Ohm resistor with 30 Volts accross it will dissipate
90mJ, by all means correct them loudly and clearly.  I wouldn't mind
(although the admins might) if you preceed that with "Wrong, moron" and
appended "Duh!".

However, english is not anyone's proclaimed area of expertise here, nor the
domain of this list.  Anyone can make a occasional spelling or grammar
error.  I know I do, and I see plenty of others doing it.  Let's not noise
up the list with this silliness, especially when the offense is as mild as
what you complained about.


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