Re: AW: AW: Addison-Wesley looking for authors

On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 03:29, John Burski wrote:
> Hallo, Jens!
>
> Sie schreib Engish sehr gut!  Ich scrieb Deutche nicht sehr gut!  Ich
> habe ein jahr Deutche gelernt ( 5 jahr im die vergangeheit, an die Uni).
>
> Ah, heck, I give up!  I've forgotten a great deal of what I learned.
> Still, if you'd like some help translating, I'd be more than willing to
> help (although I fear my ability in German is probably way below the
> level necessary to do justice).

Possibly not.

While I have forgotton at least 95% of the French and Latin I learnt at 
school I do remember that it was _very_ much easier for me to translate 
into English than the other war around. Also now-a-days we have the  
Babel-fish to help ( sometimes ) with the vocab.

I really do hope that this text ends up being translated somehow or other.
>From what he has written it seems to me that Jens' ideas are just what we 
all need to fully understand the more esoteric corners of PostgreSQL.

> Jens Hartwig wrote:
> > Hello Christopher,
> >
> >> [...]
> >> Please could you encourage them to do this, or perhaps do it
> >> yourself? You seem to have a good knowledge of English.
> >> [...]
> >
> > I will see, if I can encourage Addison Wesley to translate the book.
> > Regarding the translation on my own - thank you very much for your
> > compliment ;-) Unfortunately my knowledge of the english language does
> > not go as far as it seems to do ... much of it costs me valuable time
> > to look up the right words. Therefore I do not really think about a
> > translation by myself ... you would surely repent it :-)

-- 
Sincerely etc.,

 NAME       Christopher Sawtell
 CELL PHONE 021 257 4451
 ICQ UIN    45863470
 EMAIL      csawtell @ xtra . co . nz
 CNOTES     ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/C/tutorials/sawtell_C.tar.gz

 -->> Please refrain from using HTML or WORD attachments in e-mails to me 
<<--