Re: Tawake?


"John R. Yamamoto-Wilson" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4ukot8F185s3pU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ben Bullock commented on Cindy's English as follows:

You brought up your teachers in Japan as well.

"You brought up the topic of your teachers"

Overprescriptive. A native speaker might perfectly well say the same thing (without meaning he/she puked up pedagogues!).

I stand by all of the corrections I made. If you want to check it, type the original message into a blank file and then apply the corrections I made and see if it looks natural or not, and then apply the corrections you suggest, and see if it looks natural or not.

They may be Japanese,
but I don't know about them.

"I don't know."

Overprescriptive.

No, it ain't. "They may be Japanese but I don't know about them" is totally unnatural in this context. I can't imagine anyone except a small child writing this sentence. Similar comments about the rest of your correction-corrections.


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