Re: Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model
Posted by: Marco
on September 25, 2008 07:06 AM
"Who the hell is this guy to make a blanket statement in such a condescending manner?"
Padre Amato is a missionary who's been permanently living and working in Pakistan since the 1950's. If he says that "English" has that meaning, personally I'm pretty confident we can safely substitute your "Possibly in some more remote cities it might hold true" with "it IS true, outside main cities".
Now, the "in Pakistan" initial part of that sentence was indeed added by me to Padre Amato's quote. But that's because this is what I deduced from all the context of our original, quite longer conversation.
This said, please rest assured that any condescension is only in your mind. There never was nothing at all like condescension in what Padre Amato wrote to me or in my own writing. That sentence is just plain, factual, neutral information which is necessary to understand the one which follows.
Frankly, while I had imagined that a few readers from UK may go as far to complain for that kind of a hint to the past role of their country in Pakistan, I had not foreseen nothing like this comment. I'm baffled, really.
Marco Fioretti
[Modified by: Marco on September 25, 2008 07:09 AM]
[Modified by: Marco on September 25, 2008 07:10 AM]
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Re: Italian LUG turns Pakistani school into a educational model
Posted by: Marco on September 25, 2008 07:06 AMPadre Amato is a missionary who's been permanently living and working in Pakistan since the 1950's. If he says that "English" has that meaning, personally I'm pretty confident we can safely substitute your "Possibly in some more remote cities it might hold true" with "it IS true, outside main cities".
Now, the "in Pakistan" initial part of that sentence was indeed added by me to Padre Amato's quote. But that's because this is what I deduced from all the context of our original, quite longer conversation.
This said, please rest assured that any condescension is only in your mind. There never was nothing at all like condescension in what Padre Amato wrote to me or in my own writing. That sentence is just plain, factual, neutral information which is necessary to understand the one which follows.
Frankly, while I had imagined that a few readers from UK may go as far to complain for that kind of a hint to the past role of their country in Pakistan, I had not foreseen nothing like this comment. I'm baffled, really.
Marco Fioretti
[Modified by: Marco on September 25, 2008 07:09 AM]
[Modified by: Marco on September 25, 2008 07:10 AM]
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