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Subject: Re: What might be clear, what might be not ...

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 15:09:11 12/26/04

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On December 26, 2004 at 17:25:19, Reinhard Scharnagl wrote:

>Hi Uri,
>
>> I have no problem with programmers of Yace and Comet but for some reasons I
>> have problem to understand intelligent posters like the programmer of Smirf
>> even more than Frank quisinsky and intelligent player like Eduerd Nemeth
>> often cannot write in english here unless he is using babelfish translation.
>
>there might be some different self caused reasons for me not to be understood:

Hi Reinhard,one reason that it takes more time to understand your posts is
because the order of your words in a sentence is often not the normal order
and the problem here is not your original ideas.

instead of "for me not to be understood" it is better for you to write
"that people do not understand me"

The word "people" is the subject of that sentence and not "me".

You are not the subject because people are supposed to do the action of
understanding.

Another example from another subject in the winboard forum is the following
sentence:

"Not at all there could be noticed by me an effect of reaching some plies more
in depth"

In this case you are the subject because you do the active action of noticing
the effect so the sentence can start with the word "I" and you could write
simply:

"I could not notice an effect of searching deeper"

The normal order is:
1)I(subject)
2)notice(verb)
3)effect(something that the verb is about)

You have in that sentence
1)noticed(verb)
2)me(subject)
3)effect

Uri



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