From: Paul Bogrow <bogrow@eey.org>
Newsgroups: alt.humor.best-of-usenet
Subject: [alt.usage.english] Re: Grammar Problems
Date: 6 Jun 1997 16:58:09 +0200

Subject: Re: Grammar Problems 
From: bjg@wordwrights.ie (Brian J Goggin)
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english

On Wed, 14 May 1997 17:58:43 -0500, Ralph M Jones <rmjones@hal-pc.org>
wrote:

>Peter Moylan wrote:

>> But I think it's fair to compare, say, students from Korea
>> with those from China, because English should be equally
>> difficult for both groups.  Yet the Koreans are almost invariably
>> better in English.  Why?  I'm guessing that it's because of
>> a difference in the system of teaching.

>Could the presence of the US military in Korea have had an effect?

Don't know. Invade China and we'll find out.