From:	Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@****.INFORMATIK.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject:	Re: Language Barriers
Date:	Sun, 13 Aug 1995 11:52:47 +0200

> The hardest part is actually translating on the fly (as opposed to
> programming on the fly :)... If I run a FASA module, I read it through
> beforehand but make no notes, let alone translations. So when there's a Tell
> It To Them Straight bit I'm translating while I'm reading, which can be a
> bit annoying as my English is actually too good (sounds like I've got a
> pretty high opinion of myself, doesn't it? :) -- what I mean is that I use
> loads of English words without even trying to figure out what they mean in
> Dutch, so when I do have to translate something I'm often looking for ages
> to find the right word even though I know exactly what I want to say :(
>
> Any other non-native English speakers have similar experiences?

Yeah, sure. I even switch completly to English sometimes when writing things
down. This happens epecially when making up rules clarifications I send
via EMail to "my" group and got even worse since I got active on this
list :-/

Fortunately my speaking is that bad I really can't get anybody to understand
me when speaking English (but when I say "What is your Security Clearance,
Please?", but that's a completly different story :) so I will stick to German
while speaking...

Sascha

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