On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 at 13:12, Bernd Oppolzer via <berndoppolzer=[email protected]> wrote:
Sorry: problem with the english language:
"the parameters on fopen are just an additional method which must
not be used."
should read
"the parameters on fopen are just an additional method which can
be used or not"
maybe there are better ways to express this ... the original
wording was wrong, IMO.?
A native English speaker would probably say "...which does not have to be used".
I don't have much experience with english speaking;
I am only writing IT-related posts since almost 20 years now.
Now there's another flaw in your English. :-)? The word "since" (with this meaning) takes an absolute time. It cannot take a relative (or length of) time, as "seit" in German or "depuis" in French can. So you can fix your sentence either by using a different word - usually "for" - in place of "since", or by converting your relative time to absolute, e.g. by saying "since almost 20 years ago".
Actually there's yet another flaw. You probably want to use the present perfect rather than the simple (or progressive) present when you speak of something that started in the past and continues into the present. So e.g. "I have only been writing
IT-related posts for almost 20 years now."
Hope you don't mind.
And I hope you don't mind my perhaps preachy correcting of your English. It's certainly a lot besser als mein Deutsch.
