Posted by yxibow on May 20, 2009, at 1:02:10
In reply to Re: please the what say you say the then for what » Sigismund, posted by Vincent_QC on May 19, 2009, at 22:32:01
Its very understandable that people have trouble posting in complete sentences when they feel anxious and depressed...
...nonetheless, please don't jump on me but I do find it hard sometimes to comprehend some postings on here and I'm not going to direct it towards anyone in particular.
I guess one of my difficulties in parsing things is when there are no paragraphs or complete sentences.
A post is written like this:
Its been hard this week with the klonopin up 2 mg my doctor says that I have to keep trying with the bipolar things I dont know can anyone help me used to take depakote too
I'm really not trying to mock anyone but I can't understand postings like that. There's no sentence or paragraph. So its hard to respond at all.
And yes, I know for some English is not a first language.
Il est dommage .. mais j'ai oublié presque tous les français que j'ai étudié à l'université.(courtesy of Google.... parce que ... parce que ... J'ai oublié:)
I guess what I'm saying is.... that I can understand the frustration with trying to help people when things are incoherent........so I both understand why people can write incoherently and can sympathize and I can also understand the frustration so there's no need for the "f* that"....
...because while the post may have been harsh, there is something underlying it.
Oh, and with the Google translation (or any machine translation), its best to run the paragraph or page twice backwards -- that is, if you're going to write something, put it in and translate it into the language you want, and then put that result back in and put it back into your language.
If it doesn't make sense at all, there's a pretty good chance it won't make sense to a native speaker.-- Jay
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