| Re: reduce all spaces to one [message #176931 is a reply to message #176929] |
Mon, 06 February 2012 08:31   |
M. Strobel
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Am 06.02.2012 02:31, schrieb Doug Miller:
> On 04 Feb 2012, you wrote in comp.lang.php:
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>> Doug Miller wrote:
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>>> John <john_takethisoff(at)agdp(dot)de> wrote:
>>>> Am 05.02.2012 00:05, schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>>>> > I do not think you have fully understood what I have said (maybe
>>>> > you want to try posting to *de*.comp.lang.php instead?). *All*
>>>> > presented solutions so far, including yours and mine, are "'regex'
>>>> > solutions". But the set of characters that are replaced differs
>>>> > between them.
>>>> Thanks for the suggestions and advice : however I hope my english is
>>>> adequate enough to make myself understood in this NG :-))
>>>
>>> Your English is more than adequate. [*] However, PointedHead's often
>>> is not. English is not his first language; as far as I know, German
>>> is. And he doesn't understand English, or express himself thereby, as
>>> well as he thinks he does. If you are a native speaker of German, you
>>> would assuredly communicate more clearly with him, and he with you,
>>> in your native tongue.
>>>
>>> [*] In fact, it's excellent. I'm a native speaker of American
>>> English, [I've been following this thread since the beginning, and I
>>> had no inkling before today that you might not be a native speaker
>>> also.
>>
>> If you cannot find anything wrong with phrases like "the 'regex'
>> solutions fits perfectly", then you must be bli^Wborn Northern
>> American. Such people − unless they have studied English literature
>> – are not really qualified to make a proper assessment of what is or
>> is not proper English. *Ain't* it so, *bro*? You would be
>> well-advised to learn your own language instead of misleading people
>> into believing that they are "excellent" at it.
> While his English is not perfect, it's better than that of a good many native speakers. And he seems to
> understand it quite a bit better than you do.
>
> My comment stands: you neither write nor understand English as well as you think you do.
>
> Now go back to trolling the Javascript newsgroups.
Don't be so baaad. He will choke on "Javascript".
/Str.
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