Hi, Michael Dukelsky !
I read your message from 27.02.2019 16:07


 AK>> If we use "they", we imply many people? IMHO, it is
 AK>> incompatible "are" and "knows".

 MD> I have no answer to your question, I have another question instead.
 MD> What is the benefit of reading English translations from other
 MD> languages and not books written in English? I'd understand it if
 MD> the book were really a good literature. But from my point of view
 MD> Althemist is not, it is more like graphomania. Throw out the nasty
 MD> thing!

I also have a feeling that the book success is the product of a drastic
promotion campaign, but the book is a present, and as people say, "one
shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth". ;-) Besides, I like English reading
just for sake of English. I look at the phrase construction, punctuation marks
etc. The process gives me some pleasure itself.

PS: It was "The Alchemist" of course.

Bye, Michael!
Alexander Koryagin
english_tutor 2019

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