Thank you for your response, and please pardon my irritability -- it's a habitual shortcoming. I, too, live in a country where I'm an immigrant and speak my second language most of the day. While I feel that I've mastered it for most uses most of the time, it still throws me for a loop once in a while, so I identify. I believe that it wa…
Thank you for your response, and please pardon my irritability -- it's a habitual shortcoming. I, too, live in a country where I'm an immigrant and speak my second language most of the day. While I feel that I've mastered it for most uses most of the time, it still throws me for a loop once in a while, so I identify. I believe that it was Churchill who did the reproaching (although quite gently, all things considered) and Halifax who had reason to be embarrassed, but other than that, I think that your summary is spot on.
Thank you for your response, and please pardon my irritability -- it's a habitual shortcoming. I, too, live in a country where I'm an immigrant and speak my second language most of the day. While I feel that I've mastered it for most uses most of the time, it still throws me for a loop once in a while, so I identify. I believe that it was Churchill who did the reproaching (although quite gently, all things considered) and Halifax who had reason to be embarrassed, but other than that, I think that your summary is spot on.