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   Dallas Hinton to Alexander Koryagin   
   They knows?   
   27 Feb 19 16:25:50   
   
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   REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5c76e39e   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi Alexander -- on Feb 27 2019 at 21:23, you wrote:   
      
   AK> say, "one shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth". ;-) Besides, I   
   AK> like English reading just for sake of English. I look at the phrase   
   AK> construction, punctuation marks etc. The process gives me some   
   AK> pleasure itself.   
      
   I would argue that while reading a translation may provide access to an   
   otherwise hard to   
   read/acquire text, a translation is NOT the text to reference when trying to   
   learn correct English usage!   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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