Comments on: A little break and FOSDEM http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/01/29/a-little-break-and-fosdem/ Juanje's thoughts about GNOME, FLOSS and more Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: juanje http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/01/29/a-little-break-and-fosdem/comment-page-1/#comment-36 juanje Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:21:04 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/?p=75#comment-36 @Tom: Hi! :-) I'm very glad you comment here. Your advices help me a lot. Thank you so much :-) @Tom: Hi! :-)

I’m very glad you comment here. Your advices help me a lot.
Thank you so much :-)

]]> By: Tom http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/01/29/a-little-break-and-fosdem/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Tom Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:50:34 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/?p=75#comment-35 Hi mate, Your English does have some mistakes but isn't too bad. A trick I often used with my written German and French is to google a particular phrase in inverted commas, to find out if it was correct. In regards to Alberto's responses, I don't think (plus myself) is correct. The 'me' is not the incorrect thing here, it's the 'plus'. The phrase should be 'we were 12 people, including me.' Often people think that it is wrong to use 'me' and think they should use 'I' or 'myself', but that's not true. Anyway, my advice is to keep reading and writing English and you'll pick it up fine :) Hi mate,

Your English does have some mistakes but isn’t too bad.

A trick I often used with my written German and French is to google a particular phrase in inverted commas, to find out if it was correct.

In regards to Alberto’s responses, I don’t think (plus myself) is correct. The ‘me’ is not the incorrect thing here, it’s the ‘plus’. The phrase should be ‘we were 12 people, including me.’

Often people think that it is wrong to use ‘me’ and think they should use ‘I’ or ‘myself’, but that’s not true.

Anyway, my advice is to keep reading and writing English and you’ll pick it up fine :)

]]> By: juanje http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/01/29/a-little-break-and-fosdem/comment-page-1/#comment-34 juanje Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:18:50 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/?p=75#comment-34 @Alberto Ruíz: Thanks I'd like to comment those possible mistakes: * “we where 12 people (plus me)” -> “we were 12 people (plus myself)” * “I supposed to be” -> “I was supposed to be” Yeah, I think I missed it. Thanks * “as at any IT” -> “as any other IT” Hummm.... Probably it sounds better, but I'm not very sure it is really necessary... Second opinion? :-P * “much less girls and” -> “much less girls than” Wow, this was actually a mistake I was thinking on "than" but I don't know way I wrote that... * “One of the thing” -> “One of the things” Another mistake. Thanks again :-) * “to do in this time” -> “to do during this time” Sounds better :-) * “instead of with rush” -> “instead of rushy dishes in the closest restaurant”??? Hummm... I don't thing this mean the same... With "rush", I was talking about I was in a rush, not the dishes were kind of "fast food". And I wasn't talking about the closest restaurant (actually it wouldn't be a restaurant), just one of the few there are nearby or the one we use to choose. * “to teach me my” -> “to show me my” It was my first thought but I've heard in a similar way, so I tried out :-P Thanks for the comment. I do appreciate it! :-) @Alberto Ruíz: Thanks

I’d like to comment those possible mistakes:
* “we where 12 people (plus me)” -> “we were 12 people (plus myself)”

* “I supposed to be” -> “I was supposed to be”
Yeah, I think I missed it. Thanks

* “as at any IT” -> “as any other IT”
Hummm…. Probably it sounds better, but I’m not very sure it is really necessary… Second opinion? :-P

* “much less girls and” -> “much less girls than”
Wow, this was actually a mistake I was thinking on “than” but I don’t know way I wrote that…

* “One of the thing” -> “One of the things”
Another mistake. Thanks again :-)

* “to do in this time” -> “to do during this time”
Sounds better :-)

* “instead of with rush” -> “instead of rushy dishes in the closest restaurant”???
Hummm… I don’t thing this mean the same… With “rush”, I was talking about I was in a rush, not the dishes were kind of “fast food”.
And I wasn’t talking about the closest restaurant (actually it wouldn’t be a restaurant), just one of the few there are nearby or the one we use to choose.

* “to teach me my” -> “to show me my”
It was my first thought but I’ve heard in a similar way, so I tried out :-P

Thanks for the comment. I do appreciate it! :-)

]]> By: Alberto Ruiz http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/2009/01/29/a-little-break-and-fosdem/comment-page-1/#comment-33 Alberto Ruiz Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:37:24 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/juanje/?p=75#comment-33 Orthographic Taliban Mode = On: Unified diff format from hell: "we where 12 people (plus me)" -> "we were 12 people (plus myself)" "I supposed to be" -> "I was supposed to be" "as at any IT" -> "as any other IT" "much less girls and" -> "much less girls than" "One of the thing" -> "One of the things" "to do in this time" -> "to do during this time" "instead of with rush" -> "instead of rushy dishes in the closest restaurant"??? "to teach me my" -> "to show me my" And that's it, I might be wrong as well of course, but anyway. I wish you have a real good time during your break, and also the best of luck in your new endeavor. Orthographic Taliban Mode = On:

Unified diff format from hell:
“we where 12 people (plus me)” -> “we were 12 people (plus myself)”
“I supposed to be” -> “I was supposed to be”
“as at any IT” -> “as any other IT”
“much less girls and” -> “much less girls than”
“One of the thing” -> “One of the things”
“to do in this time” -> “to do during this time”
“instead of with rush” -> “instead of rushy dishes in the closest restaurant”???
“to teach me my” -> “to show me my”

And that’s it, I might be wrong as well of course, but anyway.

I wish you have a real good time during your break, and also the best of luck in your new endeavor.

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