Author: F. Huber
Date: 15:23:23 12/26/04
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On December 26, 2004 at 18:09:11, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Hi Uri, since I´m also (almost) a German (oh no, I´m an Austrian ;-)), I could explain this problem quite easy. It´s a well known proverb here: "Warum einfach, wenn´s auch kompliziert geht?" And the (hopefully correct) English translation: "Why doing something the simple way, if it can also be done complicated?" Regards, Franz.
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