Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!sri-unix!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: I don't understand "precised"
Message-ID: <779@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 88 10:16:07 GMT
References: <1196@kulcs.kulcs.uucp>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <1196@kulcs.kulcs.uucp>, bimbart@kulcs.uucp (Bart Demoen) writes:
> could the author of article 599 in comp.lang.prolog behave a bit more respectful
> towards europeans who speak 3 or 4 (natural) languages but whose native
> language is not english ? we are bound to make mistakes in english, but that's
> no reason to sneer at us.

Before flaming me, might it not be an idea to ensure that I have done
something to deserve it?  I am well aware that my dialect of English is
not identical to British English nor yet to American, and I have seen
"precised" enough times that this time I thought it was a proper use of
English that I didn't happen to know.
Just because someone has a European name and is writing from Europe
doesn't mean that person isn't a native speaker of English:  the writer
could be American, for all I can tell to the contrary.

What I wrote was not ' "precised" isn't proper English ', but
	'I don't understand "precised"'.
That's what I wrote, and that, sir, is EXACTLY what I meant.
Well, not exactly, it was an indirect request for clarification.
If Demoen would care to say what it means, I would still like to know.