Subject: No German From You Unless It's Your Native Language, I'm English. From: German_Sender@ Sender: German_Sender@ I append http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_german.txt See also: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/mail/no_german.html http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/no_german_bg.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/not_a_german_customer.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/std/why_not_more_german.txt http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/txt/grammar.html & more generaly: http://www.berklix.com Computer Consultancy http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/cv/ My Resume - English & German http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/contact/ Contact - German for business OK. http://www.berklix.com/free/ Free Software http://www.berklix.org Free Organisations & Clubs Thanks for your mail, I'm English, Please do Not write in German if that's not your first language. I can read German, but much prefer English. Unless you are actually a native speaker of German, do not mail me in German ! I used to get too many Americans with German ancestry assuming I'm German, & writing me in half baked German ! My German grammar is also half baked (though I have a Large german vocabulary), & real German grammar is bad enough, so it would be foolish to lead each other astray, puzzling about & worse, even learning each other's faulty grammar, so Please do not mail me in German unless you Are German (or Austrian or Swiss) - Some people write to me in German because they see a .de in a domain, or mention of Munich/ Muenchen etc, even though all my prior mail discussion has been in English on international mail lists. Wrong deduction ! I'm not German ! I am English. - Perhaps people are being friendly or helpful or practising their German on me, learnt at school, or with USA German ancestry etc, but ... - Though my German is good enough for me to read real German, it is easily confused, & I really don't want to wade through unsolicited- switched- to- quasi- maybe- German, when I must both try to understand the meaning, and simultaneously guess if (A) this is _proper_ German where I should learn the grammar, or (B) this is junk quasi German from a non native German speaker, with perhaps as many but different mistakes as I make, where learning the sender's grammar could degrade my German grammar. Exceptions Unless there's someone on CC: who can't read (not can't write) English. Unless you're quoting or preparing a German text or publication. PS If you first language is French you could also write short notes in simple French, but Not unless you are a native French speaker.