surely that works whatever your native language is??
*ponders* hmm, I don't freak out whenever the layout of writing is weird, but I guess it bothers me. I'm not quite sure what the teachers' exact point was. Sensitive eyes? it's like they are saying english speakers are genetically that way even though nobody is genetically programmed to speak any language. WEIRD! I guess they're maybe saying that English speakers are very used to things being presented in normal English layout because so many countries learn our language?? *confused*
it's like they are saying english speakers are genetically that way even though nobody is genetically programmed to speak any language. WEIRD!
Indeed! That's why I was - AM, actually - so confused about it. I don't know whether they thought that works whatever your mother tongue is - in that case, I guess, they wouldn't have specified it the way they did.
Certainly, there's nobody who's NOT bothered by a weird layout - the point is that such things are damned difficult to read, isn't it? But what I quoted above - and what seems to be part of the curriculum of the seminar I visited - says that native English speakers get 'very confused' about a 'non-standard form'.
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It doesn't even say these forms have to be difficult to read or something! In fact, it implicates something like: if the text colour is dark blue instead of black, people whose mother tongue is English will suffer a nervous breakdown and won't be able to read the text, for it is written in a non-standard form... O.o WEIRD!
Actually, there are differences. We had to analize English papers in grade 13, and I remember one or the other thing.
But, yes, people have their own style - and as long as you can easily read a text, it doesn't matter in the slightest whether it's written in a standard form or not. That's what I myself think about it. And you seem to agree. And Senjy (above) apparently does, too. And - in her own, twisted way *evil grin* - the kitten (below) seems to agree, too. That makes four already, one of us being - if I recall correctly - a native speaker. That says something... ;-)
mmmh gibts nicht sogar gedichte die nur in einer betsimmten form sinn machen? also wnen sie ausshene wie ne teetasse udn fühlen die sich dann auch beleidigt? Kommt aus england nicht der punk O.O??? warum sollten die sich drum scheren?
You have a point there. But I think poems are to be excepted from this 'rule' (which is a ridiculous rule, though).
Anyway, I'm glad you're as confused as the rest of us. I just want to kick myself because I didn't ask the professor about it - and won't have the chance to do it, now that I'm home again. Stupid me!
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hmm, I don't freak out whenever the layout of writing is weird, but I guess it bothers me. I'm not quite sure what the teachers' exact point was. Sensitive eyes? it's like they are saying english speakers are genetically that way even though nobody is genetically programmed to speak any language. WEIRD! I guess they're maybe saying that English speakers are very used to things being presented in normal English layout because so many countries learn our language?? *confused*
Oh yeah btw I friended you back *grins*
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Indeed! That's why I was - AM, actually - so confused about it. I don't know whether they thought that works whatever your mother tongue is - in that case, I guess, they wouldn't have specified it the way they did.
Certainly, there's nobody who's NOT bothered by a weird layout - the point is that such things are damned difficult to read, isn't it? But what I quoted above - and what seems to be part of the curriculum of the seminar I visited - says that native English speakers get 'very confused' about a 'non-standard form'.
???
It doesn't even say these forms have to be difficult to read or something! In fact, it implicates something like: if the text colour is dark blue instead of black, people whose mother tongue is English will suffer a nervous breakdown and won't be able to read the text, for it is written in a non-standard form... O.o WEIRD!
I guess they're maybe saying that ( ... )
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But, yes, people have their own style - and as long as you can easily read a text, it doesn't matter in the slightest whether it's written in a standard form or not. That's what I myself think about it. And you seem to agree. And Senjy (above) apparently does, too. And - in her own, twisted way *evil grin* - the kitten (below) seems to agree, too. That makes four already, one of us being - if I recall correctly - a native speaker. That says something... ;-)
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Anyway, I'm glad you're as confused as the rest of us. I just want to kick myself because I didn't ask the professor about it - and won't have the chance to do it, now that I'm home again. Stupid me!
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