Nothing wrong with being a German, of course. (I'm Bavarian by birth - born in Nuremburg and lived in Oberkatasu while my father was stationed in Hof on the Saale.) I meant German as distinct from English - that is, ESL of any sort. :) Bitte, annehmen meine bescheidene entschuldigung - und meine schrecklicher Deutsche. :) -eg

-----Original Message----- From: Nils Zurawski [mailto:nils.zurawski@uni-hamburg.de] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 1:47 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard@csun.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] <Introduce interesting News about Wibro>

Dear Ellis and other list members,

just to explain my posting, which seem to have irritated you. I was not sure if these postings were spam or legitimate postings by some student, who were not aware of the lists content and the appropriate forms of communication on a list. Because the English was not always correct, I was assuming this, as I thought that plain commercial spam would not contain such mistakes. I did not want to stigmatise anyone. But I have to ask what you Ellis mean by "particularly a German"? Is there any problem with me being German? Or was this a general remark on me not being a native English speaker.

I hope I watched out for typos in this posting and for punctution as well. best wishes nilz

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I'm surprised that anyone on this list, particularly a German whose messages (even here) include typos and punctuation errors, would risk stigmatizing incorrect English by identifying it as an indicator of spam.

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