Do you think it is good English written by native speaker?
Author: admin // Category: HarmoniumI am reading an article. Sometime I feel it is a good article, and sometime I feel that it is a bit strange. The most important thing for me is to know if it is native speaker’s language. Otherwise, it might be just a waste of time if I work hard on it.
Quote:
Newness, a preoccupation with the unknown, a twinning of heralded benefits and fears of danger, is one trope of restructuring that is evident throughout the process of legal and policy transformation. Every candidate for new information technology has invited a superheated rhetoric of millennial social change, a ballooning of the claims Hardy made in his precise description of the effect of the Harmonium. When wireless radio technology was introduced in the first decades of the twentieth century, world peace was said to be only a turn of the dial away. The New York Times wrote: “Nothing so fosters and promotes a mutual undestanding and a community of sentiment and interests as cheap, speedy, and convenient communication.”
many thanks to everyone who made your points of views. Especially to Jude and Antipode.
I can speak English althought I am not living in UK, or USA. I even wrote my diploma in English, but I am not satisfied. I still feel that my English is too much of speaking style. I want to write a very good English, for the sake of business communication in my work. That’s why I must know what I read is good English, better from native author, which makes me feel same. It is more promising.
sorry, mistyping.
…which makes me feel safe…( not same, surely not )
Thanks to Lan. Unfortunately, I can not choose my native. If I could do it, it would be extremely difficult. It is funny that many people make themselves to be immigrant even they just paid once visit to Canada, or Australia, by bus tour. This is irrational if you do not really know this country.
I am still confused about what you said. The difference between foreign language and second language? How do you define it? In Finland, most people speak Swedish, so it is their second language. For me, living in Asia, Swedish could be foreign language, if I start to learn it. Right?
Thanks to Dolphinsandlivingher.
You are just making the point. I need to identify the article if it was written by a well-educated person, or a guy who was trying to make himself sound well-educated. I used to have a professor from Iraq, taking a thick dictionary with him everytime he needs to write. He replaced all easy words by the most weird ones. At the beginning, we foreign students do not know this trick and believe he is cool untill a day some native students burst to laugh. However, some article is not meant to be read by the public. The one I quoted is actually part of diploma work of a PHD student.
Unfortunately, I am a little one struggling for living. Image is important in business, and I do not want to be taken as one with poor education. Taht is why I have interests with a bit sophisticated language.
Written by a man that could put insomniacs to sleep.