I know this site proably have a lot of foreign writers who writes in English. I would like to know - do you think the English language is holding you back when you write in it? To those who have mastered -how did you do it? What made you a better English writer given your choice of words? Would you prefer your own language if there was a greater market for it?
Vicar and cigar - now that conjurs an image! :-)
Hi Rosa,
Thank you and totally agree.
Please send the rest -awaiting eagerly
Best Regards,
And thank you to all who replied - much appreciated.
Hello again Carmelita,
last night I posted the beginning of this email I received, Here is the remainder that will not copy and paste.
Dearest creature in creation, study English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse, corpse, corps, horse and worse.
I will keep you busy, Suzy, make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I. Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard and heard, dies and diet, lord and word.
Sword and sward, retain and Britain; mind the latter, how it's written.
Now I surely will not plague you, with such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
say break and stake, (or steak) but bleak and streak; cloven oven, high and low,
script, receipt , show, poem, toe.
Hear me say devoid of trickery, daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
typhoid, measles topsails, aisles, exile similes, reviles,
scholar, vicar and cigar, solar, mica, war and far.
It isn't very clever but shows how treacherous our pronunciation can be. I thought I had finished but I have sent you only about half of the 'poem', such as it is.
If you'd like me to try to do the rest I will try tomorrow.
Good luck with it,
Rosa.