Re: Tawake?

John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
Ben Bullock commented on Cindy's English as follows:
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Three or four corrections here would have been quite sufficient; the others are simply being a hard taskmaster, correcting things that native speakers might very well say. There ain't no point in that.

I missed the post where Cindy invited Ben to correct her English at all.
KWW
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