Re: Tawake?


muchan wrote:
Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson wrote:
Ben Bullock commented on Cindy's English as follows:
....
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

Cindy has never invited Ben to correct her English at all.

I wonder if Ben wants her to correct his Japanese the same way.

彼が日本語で投稿するといつも私に訂正されているから仕返しに私の英語を訂正しているわけ。　でも、イトウさんと上柴さんの方がもっと細かいところに厳しい。

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