User:William Avery
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I was born in Salisbury, England, but had no hand in the article about it. I have lived and worked in London, Paris, Sydney, Hong Kong and Singapore. I now live in Bristol
I have recently been reading many articles on Chinese topics and making grammatical corrections to them. I would like to make it clear that I have the greatest admiration for anybody whose first language is Chinese who can even begin to write an encyclopedia article in English. When I use the phrase 'obvious grammatical errors' I mean 'obvious to a native speaker'. Such is human language that the reason why they are errors can be as deeply mysterious to the native speaker as the non-native.
I am developing a pet hate: apparent references to Nineteenth Century Psychology and the like which appear to promise a detailed and specialist article but are in fact two references to general articles which have no overlap and offer no enlightenment whatever about the promised subject. William Avery 21:14, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC)