Re: BEg2 chapter 13 Fiona’s camp

Mark Kohut mark.kohut at gmail.com
Wed Jan 12 23:46:59 UTC 2022


A little joke on Americans' "simple' demands of workers, staff?

On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:53 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> “…Japanese staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond “awesome”
> and “sucks,” which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more
> than enough . . .”
>
> This is a startling statement from a writer, who writes in English,
> acknowledging the limits of English words.
>
> I wonder about “more than enough.”
> which one would be superfluous?
> Or both?
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