| Re: reduce all spaces to one [message #176929 is a reply to message #176914] |
Mon, 06 February 2012 01:31   |
Doug Miller
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Registered: August 2011
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On 04 Feb 2012, you wrote in comp.lang.php:
> 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.
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> 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.
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