The anal-retentive proofreader in me noticed...
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Originally Posted by brett
(Which explains the amount of posts I'm contributed to this thread. Just one would probably have been enough from me, really). :lol:
"I'm contributed" = mixed tenses, anyone? it should be "I've contributed"
--Feel free to ignore me, I make worse mistakes when speed-typing all the time :roll:
--Robb Hammack
P.S. for those who don't regognize me, there's a good reason - I'm new here!
Just learning the Russian alphabet so far, so most of the stuff in the russian forums is beyond me (but not for long!) I do, however have a good to exellent grasp of English (American Variety) and will be glad to help with english whenever I can.
Native Speaker of English
I'm an American ;o)
I'm aware it was just a typo, which as I said (and Pravit ALREADY caught me in another thread) I make more than my share!
Sorry if my meaning (humor rather than a serious correction) didn't come thru.
I've had no formal training in english or language in general, beyond some (mostly forgotten) classes in high school - but I've been a voracious reader for most of my 41 years and have always been interested in etymology of words and phrases.
I became interested in the Russian language recently due to SPAM, lol
For some reason, my mailbox was flooded with spam about "beautiful russian brides" - then I was asked at work to take a look at some source code (I'm a Software Developer) and found that the comments were in Russian!
I'm happily married with three kids, so I don't think a "Beautiful Russian Bride" is in my future, but dang some of them are cute! I became interested in just WHY they were looking for "A Foreign Prince" instead of the guy next door, so I started to do some reading via online translator in public forums for russian women - I'm sure I don't have to tell people here how hard it is to get the true idea of what they are trying to say that way! Anyway, it convinced me to at least attempt to learn russian before my brain completely fossilizes.
Robb
Re: What is your native language
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Originally Posted by Евгения Белякова
What is your native language RobbHammack?
Hard as it may be to believe, American English!
I've just started to study the Russian alphabet, but I think your forum name in translit would be Yevgeneya Belyakova ? is that somewhat close?
(I'm doing it from memory here - about an hours study yesterday)
--Robb