Re: articles, etc.

["Dr. Deborah Martinson" <dmartin@oxy.edu>]

Cliff,
	I'd "give" the writer any and all of your suggestions, as long as 
they needed the gift and learned what to do with it. Isn't this the 
concept behind modeling?
Debby

P.S. Even if they only "Began" to understand it.

On Fri, 23 Feb 1996 WRCENTER@lucy.ch.pdx.edu wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> This AM  (in the shower this time, not the bus) I thought:  Hmmm . . .
> If I'm willing to "give" away articles based on the protracted learning
> curve for non-native writers who don't have articles in their native
> languages, would I be willing to "give" away other aspects of English
> if the native language of the writer I'm working with doesn't have a
> specific feature or uses that feature differently?  For instance, would
> I "give" a writer whose native language was Arabic, relative clauses;
> similiarly, would I correct the spelling of someone who comes from 
> a language group which confuses, say, "as" and "has"?
> 
> 
> I'm really not trying to be arch here,  or be a gadfly --this just popped
> into my cranium this AM and am wondering what y'all think.
> 
> Cliff Barnett
> 
>