Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 07:32:45 10/30/99
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On October 30, 1999 at 06:16:38, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Dave Gomboc on October 30, 1999 at 00:25:00: >> >>In Reply to: I think I now know why people think Century is a Windows >>program... posted by Steven Schwartz on October 29, 1999 at 09:45:53: >> >>On October 29, 1999 at 09:45:53, Steven Schwartz wrote: >> >>>I was also wondering why some customers thought Rebel Century >>>was a Windows program... >>> >>>Then I took a look back at our web site description of the Century >>>(which is the same as is on the Rebel site) and noticed the following >>>text... >>> >>>"REBEL CENTURY is the successor of Rebel 10 and is a goodbye to DOS, >>>an era (and century) will be closed forever. Future REBELs will only >>>run on Windows 95/98/NT platforms." >> >>Yes, this would better be written as >> >>REBEL CENTURY is the successor of Rebel 10. It marks the end of an era: >>it is a last farewell to DOS. Future REBELs will only run on Windows >>95/98/NT platforms. >> >>Feel free to quote the above if you want, Ed. ;) > >Just did. Hope it will help to avoid future confusion on this topic as I am not >sure if your text is more clear than my original text. I think it's a little clearer. The "last farewell" implies that it is still done "in the old way". One would use "last, fond farewell" if one liked DOS, but since there are many who don't like DOS at all, I left "fond" out. :-) The paragraph could still be improved. I was mainly concerned with getting rid of the ambiguity while preserving the ambience (style) of the message. IMO, other things at your site made it obvious that it was a DOS program. I suppose that not everyone's internet connection is as good as mine is. >I often see people apologize for their use of the english language. And every >time I conclude I perfectly well understand the posting. I think (more or less >came to the conclusion) that non native english speaking people understand >each other very well as they don't even see (notice) the small slips in wordings >and grammar. Of course this is different for native english speaking people >and may cause confusion. I don't usually have trouble reading people's posts. The main problem I have is understanding what people are trying to say when they write in "stream of consciousness" mode. There is something about having a 75-line message in one paragraph that just doesn't work for me. Sometimes it is because the writer's thoughts are not well-organized, but other times it seems fine... and I end up with the impression that paragraphs just don't exist in their native tongue. :-) e.g. Fernando's recent post about complainers... one paragraph, but it was easy to read, and I had a good chuckle over it. Dave
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