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Discussion Groups / English Usage / January 2007Letter to Author
Part of my home work is a Novel Reader Response Log. I need to write a letter telling the author how I feel about his book. This is my first try. I have never written a letter in my life so any help would be appriciated. Name of of the book is: Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster by Peter Brimelow Dear Peter Brimelow I must confess I am found your book, it is very illuminating. Being an immigrant I always thought of myself a member of multiculture Australian society. However, your book has change my mind, in fact it has made me racially conscious. I now believe that all men are unequal and there's nothing we can do about it. Just like you I am an immigrant, my family moved to Australia. What you experienced in America, I am experiencing in Australia. Over excessive immigration is destroying Australia, and replacing White population. It is a nation made of European ancestry, and therefore it should remains this way. Multiculturalism is a path to racial suicide. It was diversity that enslaved African. Slavery of African in American was painful - specially for the owners. I am a German, and in Germany we are thought that multiculturalism and diversity is our strength. However, now, I believe that it was multiculturalism, immigrantes, and diversity that lead of WW2, which means we Germans are the victim not the victimizer. Yugoslavia was also a multi culture society, and it didn't work out, and as you quite rightly point out that it won't work out for America. I would like to thank you for writing such a marvelous book, and I am also thankful that my teacher recommend your book. You have opened my eyes, and your book has profoundly change my life. Sincerely Dieter Vonnegut > Part of my home work is a Novel Reader Response Log. I need to write a > letter telling the author how I feel about his book. This is my first [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > enslaved African. Slavery of African in American was painful - > specially for the owners. DV may be interested to know that Peter Brimelow is also a migrant (twice). He was born in Britain and moved as an adult to Canada where he worked in newspapers for 5 or 10 years, and then to the USA (before 1995 when he wrote the book Alien Nation. But perhaps movement between English-speaking countries is not considered "migration" in the way a Scotsman's move to Tashkent or Buenos Aires would be.) If DV attended school in Australia and has "never written a letter in my life," this seems a terrible indictment of Australian teaching methods.  SignatureDon Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) On 09 Jan 2007, Don Phillipson wrote >> Part of my home work is a Novel Reader Response Log. I need to >> write a letter telling the author how I feel about his book. [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >> Slavery of African in American was painful - specially for the >> owners. -snip- > If DV attended school in Australia and has "never written > a letter in my life," this seems a terrible indictment of > Australian teaching methods. The thing smells funny: there's a severe disjunction between the competent English of his first explanatory paragraph and the inept "me-I-just-learning-de-English" quality of the draft letter. He's either trying to use the letter to take the piss out of the author, or is trolling on the sentiments. I suspect the latter. SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van > On 09 Jan 2007, Don Phillipson wrote > [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > I suspect the latter. I suspected the same at first, but then I took a look at his Google Groups profile, from which it appears that this is his very first post to any news group. I was expecting to see a pile of stuff previously sent to alt.nazis, alt.racists etc., but there is nothing. athel > On 09 Jan 2007, Don Phillipson wrote > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > competent English of his first explanatory paragraph and the inept > "me-I-just-learning-de-English" quality of the draft letter. I don't see it. The letter has fairly complex sentences and could be much worse. The opening paragraph is half copy-the-homework-instructions and copy-the-title-and-author, so what's to judge there? What was up to him is not free of mistakes: "home work", "appriciated," and "(The) name of of". So I suspect you have overestimated the quality of the first, and underestimated the quality of the second, quite possibly because you are disturbed about the opinions contained therein, and you fear a troll. SignatureBest - Donna Richoux On 09 Jan 2007, Donna Richoux wrote >> The thing smells funny: there's a severe disjunction between >> the competent English of his first explanatory paragraph and [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > because you are disturbed about the opinions contained therein, > and you fear a troll. That may partly be the case, but I don't think it's all of it. I know that my immediate reaction upon reading the first sentence of the draft letter -- well before the opinions became clear -- was "What the hell? This is written by the same person? That's strange..." I then quickly scanned the rest of the draft to see if the quality got better, and only then noticed the opinions. All put together, it didn't -- still doesn't -- add up, and I still suspect a troll. SignatureCheers, Harvey Canadian and British English, indiscriminately mixed For e-mail, change harvey.news to harvey.van [snip] > All put together, it didn't -- still doesn't -- add up, and I still > suspect a troll. Me too. SignatureLinz Wet Yorks via Cambridge, York, London and Watford My accent may vary |
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