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echo: english_tutor
to: Alexander Koryagin
from: Dallas Hinton
date: 2019-02-27 16:25:50
subject: They knows?

Hi Alexander -- on Feb 27 2019 at 21:23, you wrote:

AK> say, "one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth". ;-) Besides, I
AK> like English reading just for sake of English. I look at the phrase
AK> construction, punctuation marks etc. The process gives me some
AK> pleasure itself.

I would argue that while reading a translation may provide access to an
otherwise hard to
read/acquire text, a translation is NOT the text to reference when trying to
learn correct English usage!


Cheers... Dallas

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