MS> GP> I'm not expecting "proper " -- just
enough to convey to a nat
MS> GP> speaker my intent. . .
MS>
MS> For that languages are to complex. Very small differences in the sentence
MS> can have a totally different meaning. In latin half the time I was in
MS> danger of translating the exact opposite meaning of what the sentence
MS> really meant. Unbelievable maybe, but it is that easy. The main problem
MS> was, that one word had many different meanings, which in the wrong context
MS> had a completly different meaning. And that is a problem a automatic
MS> translator also has.

I find when someone approaches me with terrible English, and obviously
fractured phrases, I back them up, and, knowing they have no clue, I parse
their attempts very carefully, and most times I get it right -- of course, most
people don't give a flying fleep to help a foreign language speaker, in any
country any more! :P

Because I care,
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