Saw a low-flying rental... let the FBO know?

Peter Duniho wrote:

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
Look at the rest of his text (in this and other notes). English is his
second (or Nth) language.

I doubt that. I suspect English is his first language, possibly his only
one. Most non-native English speakers are MUCH more literate than he is,
especially those that post to Usenet.

I see a fair bit of traffic on the more techie USENET groups with the broken
English of non-native speakers, so I'm not quite ready to go with your
"most non-native ..." assertion. These are often people at least somewhat
knowledgeable in the field under discussion (networking, programming,
etc.), but for whom English is a bit of a stretch.

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

- Andrew

Andrew Gideon wrote:

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

I would guess that it's because most people who earn enough to be involved in both
aviation and usenet needed a fair amount of education to get to that point.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:



Andrew Gideon wrote:

But these rec.aviation.* groups do tend to maintain a higher level of
literacy. I'm not sure why that is.

I would guess that it's because most people who earn enough to be involved
in both aviation and usenet needed a fair amount of education to get to
that point.

USENET is cheap (take that however you wish grin), but your point about
aviation is a good one. That may be it.

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
online.com...
I see a fair bit of traffic on the more techie USENET groups with the
broken
English of non-native speakers, so I'm not quite ready to go with your
"most non-native ..." assertion. These are often people at least somewhat
knowledgeable in the field under discussion (networking, programming,
etc.), but for whom English is a bit of a stretch.

I suppose that depends on the techie newsgroup you're talking about. But
the two that I follow most closely are populated almost entirely by people
for whom English is not their native language. They all write better than
the person in question here (and some are pretty hard to understand).

In any case, like I said...I think it's a pretty good bet the guy's first
language is English. Non-natives don't get their panties in such a twist
over perceived conspiracies like the one he's ranting about, and his utter
lack of facility with the English language in no way rules out that language
being his first (and only).

Pete