Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:36:38 05/26/00
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On May 26, 2000 at 12:09:17, Pete R. wrote: >On May 25, 2000 at 18:19:13, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Hi: >>If you have some influence in the proceedings of the CM team, I would appreciate >>very much if you can ask them to replace the current voice of Mr Waitzkin we >>must tolerate in CM6000 as much as it is, for a non english native speaking >>citizen of the world, absolutely nasty and unintelligible. I even bet the same >>is for any guy of the States that was not raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. An >>alternative is to ask him an extra effort of correctness in the use and >>enunciation of his own language, asking him to do goo use of all the sounds that >>constitutes human talking instead of eating them as if caught in a rush of >>extreme hunger. > >LOL! Fernando, I have no opinion on this subject, but I must comment in another >area. You posted recently that you appreciate how some posters here write in >English. I have to say the same for you, I find your colorful use of English to >be very entertaining. :) I mean this in the best way. Your English, although >perhaps not grammatically perfect, is easy to understand, and has a unique >flavor to it. I speak a number of languages, and I understand that expressions >in one language may not have an exact equal translation that captures the same >humor or essence of thought in another. It's something that makes languages >interesting, and sometimes in trying to convey a thought you may come up with a >way of saying something that would not occur to a native speaker. The colorful >visual of your last sentence above is a good example. It's nice to see English >with a little different spice to it. :) Well, very happy to produce some laughs with my special version . Maybe I could get a new job writting some scripts for Mr Magoo. You never know. :-) fernando
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