Originally posted by Kfamr
I just wish the American Language wasn't so difficult. There's so many words that are spelt similar or sound the same.
You should try and learn Romanian or Russian Actually, even if Romanian is my first language, I still think it's difficult. Well, not for me, but... And, I also spell Russian 1000 times better than my Russian co-workers. As to English, the spelling is not so difficult for me, because in words like affect or effect I look for the root in Romanian, and we pronounce afecta or efectua, so, no way I will ever make such a mistake. I am sure, I can make 1000 of other kind of mistakes. And I still spell French very well, although I must have and awful accent already.

I remember my colleague, our other translator, being an University teacher for years, made a mistake once, she wrote in a report to our boss instead of the word mail the word male. Our boss kept teasing her with this

I agree with Mary that we became a bunch of hostile people, but we should look at the roots of the problem, sometimes the ones that feel offended are the ones that interpret it wrong. As someone else has said, there are three ways to take cristicism. I learned to accept it and learn from it. This only makes me better. I know SAS didn't mean to offend anyone.

And, by the way, Sallyanne, I love reading your posts, just because your sentences are so well structured and I can really understand your words. Sometimes, when I read some posts, I have to pronounce the words, so I can understand what the meaning is