So, you got the difference in meaning between 一部分でしかない and 一部分しかない or わたしは水しか飲みません and わたしは水でしか飲みません now?
Toritoribe:
I've been browsing through the threads I want to say something.
"Gosh, go get yourself a textbook"
"That is piracy and it is illegal"
There are quite a number of statements like that from you. Besides those you seem to obsessed with talking to people with a condescending attitude. This gives me a clear picture of what kind of person you are: being surrounded, flattered and politely talked to by members for too long, you as someone who has some managing authority at hand becomes somewhat cocky. Go back and read some of your posts and you'll feel it.
Personally, I feel very uncomfortable around someone like you. Judging from your tones, I don't think you're a native Japanese, therefore, I hope when you are mannered to your Japanese fellows and busy bowing to your superiors, you have not forgotten the manners you had learned in your home country (if you had learned any, that is). Just because you helped someone with a question or two, doesn't mean you should talk with such a condescending tone. Now if you say that "well I'm providing free help and this is how I am, like it or f**k off. ", I take it as you're probably using this place as a dumping ground to offset the frustration of having to bow too much to your manager.
While to some extent I do understand that:
1. People in the spotlights, some of them will develop this cancer over time, and starts to see learners as lowbies --- you seem to be much more friendly with the Japanese members here.
2. There are always people asking simple grammar questions that can be found in the first 5 chapters of any properly written textbooks, or the question is plain dumb because the poster doesn't know what he is doing. What I don't understand is why do you force yourself to help them and at the same time being impatient and hostile.
Some people may be comfortable around you, I am not. Don't bother relying, as I will not set foot on this site again.
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And to Mike Cash, thank you again for your help. I gain a lot from answers like this.
