27 Mar 21
The post that was quoted here has been removedTeinosuke wishes to clarify that he is not an Oxford academic. Duchess64 has extrapolated this supposition from Teinosuke's comment, in a thread about statues and the colonial legacy, that he not infrequently has occasion to be in Oxford, and thus is familiar with a controversial statue mounted on the facade of one of the colleges on its High Street.
Teinosuke does not feel qualified to evaluate Duchess64's literacy relative to a hypothetical population of 200,000,000 native speakers. However, Teinosuke does consider that Duchess64 writes English with grammatical precision and apt vocabulary. Teinosuke also notes that many native English speakers do not demonstrate these virtues in their writing, either here or in the wider world. Teinosuke has perceived, somewhat to his sorrow, that many native speakers appear to have less facility with the written English language, in terms of accurate grammar, than many non-native speakers. Teinosuke attributes this to the fact that English grammar and usage is no longer properly taught in British schools (nor, he suspects, in American ones), whereas it is still taught internationally to learners of English as a second language.
Teinosuke further regards the circumstantial evidence that Duchess64 is able to read Jane Austen with pleasure as evidence of her high proficiency in English.
Teinosuke often disagrees either partially or wholly with Duchess64's stated positions, but he does think they are expressed in fluently written English. Some posters accused Duchess64 of repetitious argument, and this is indeed often a valid criticism of her rhetorical style, but not strictly a criticism of her English ability. In sum, Teinosuke thus wishes to support Duchess64's claim to a high level of English literacy.
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27 Mar 21
@teinosuke saidIf Duchess is indeed not a native speaker of English then her literacy is very good and certainly better than my written Japanese. (And then some). The question however is not if you support her claim of having a high level of English but whether or not (as she has claimed) her English is superior to almost all native speakers? I think this is where she trips over her own arrogance.
Teinosuke wishes to clarify that he is not an Oxford academic. Duchess64 has extrapolated this supposition from Teinosuke's comment, in a thread about statues and the colonial legacy, that he not infrequently has occasion to be in Oxford, and thus is familiar with a controversial statue mounted on the facade of one of the colleges on its High Street.
Teinosuke does not f ...[text shortened]... ity. In sum, Teinosuke thus wishes to support Duchess64's claim to a high level of English literacy.
As an aside, I wouldn't expect you seriously to evaluate her literacy relative to a hypothetical population of 200,000,000 native speakers. I use my own judgement for that.
@ghost-of-a-duke saidVery good, Ghost man.
As always you miss the point. Churchill was the right man at the right time. We remember him for that reason, and not for being a perfect human being.
Bobby Fischer had a distinctly unpleasant side to his character. Are we therefore not able to recognise his genius on the chess board?
The big thing about Fischer was, beating a SOVIET for the championship in the cold war era.
Talk about right place at right time. 😍 Do you remember "Spassky Smashkie"?
@Teinosuke
Don't worry, my man, we're onto her. What Duchess64 is doing *in part* by telling rebutters how incompetent
they are as writers, is to publicly pat herself on the back for being a genius. It also foreshadows that the Duchess
is winning the debate she is currently in.
Duchess 64, a big mouth with a bag of tricks.
27 Mar 21
@teinosuke saidI wish people would stop talking about themselves in the third person.
Teinosuke wishes to clarify that he is not an Oxford academic. Duchess64 has extrapolated this supposition from Teinosuke's comment, in a thread about statues and the colonial legacy, that he not infrequently has occasion to be in Oxford, and thus is familiar with a controversial statue mounted on the facade of one of the colleges on its High Street.
Teinosuke does not f ...[text shortened]... ity. In sum, Teinosuke thus wishes to support Duchess64's claim to a high level of English literacy.
On Shavixmir’s mammary protruberances it gets.
27 Mar 21
@shavixmir saidTeinosuke apologises for placing unnecessary weight on shavixmir's mammary protruberances.
I wish people would stop talking about themselves in the third person.
On Shavixmir’s mammary protruberances it gets.
The post that was quoted here has been removed“raging Turkophobia”
😂😂
“ But other Ottoman leaders preferred an alliance with Germany, and so a SECRET
treaty of alliance was signed on 2 August 1914. Note that this was AFTER the
UK had moved to seize the battleships being built for the Ottoman Empire.
"On 28 July 1914 Winston Churchill asked for the requisition of two modern warships
being built by British shipyards for the Ottoman navy. These were Sultân Osmân-ı Evvel,
which had been completed and was making preparations to leave, and Reşadiye. ”
And of course British intelligence would know nothing of this SECRET alliance. 😉 You also admit my point concerning Russian Turkish enmity being the main reason for Turkey aligning with Germany but choose to ignore it.
Your analytical abilities once again fall far short of your cut and paste skills duchess.
27 Mar 21
The post that was quoted here has been removedAnd here ladies and germs we find the true nature of the beast. Even in the face of the truth, there is no self deprecation, no silly me, just a dogged insistence in the righness of her cause. At least we have it in black and white. Anyone still expecting any acknowledgement for their point of view are clearly warned. Poster beware.