Statements from Kevin in 2003

[Wilhelm Sanke]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:53:58 -0700, Klaus on-rev wrote:


> > and that we needed one and a half year to build a new MC standalone 
> builder.
>
> I don't think that I am talking/writing chinese, do I, Wilhelm?
>
> For the last time:
> 1. It was not too difficult to create the standalone builder.
> 2. RunRev supplied all neccesary info to do this.
> 3. It were MY PERSONAL PROBLEMS that hindered me to do so in that time!
> 4. We have been talking about this several times in the last weeks 
> here on the
> list
> and I pointed this 3) out also several times very clearly!
>
> Klaus



Sorry Klaus,

You were definitely not talking Chinese to me, but the receiver of a 
message must still actively construe the  meaning for himself, which 
then may come out even wrong or deviate from the intended original meaning.

Among other things, my interpretation was influenced also by the longer 
discussion between Sept 3 and Oct 7 2009 in threads "Metacard 4" and 
"Standalone Building" on this list. Looking over this discussion again 
later led me apparently to overestimate the difficulties posed by the 
new way of standalone building. My impression was indeed that the new 
standalone building design, although a minor factor compared to you 
special situation, nevertheless caused at least some substantial 
difficulties for adapting the MC standalone builder.

So, sorry again, receive my apologies.

By the way, I like Chinese. I wrote a Metacard stack some time ago 
introducing about 200 basic Kanji characters in different learning 
modes. The incentive for this was a longer East-Asian working experience 
in South Korea, where they use - similar to Japan - a limited set of 
Kanji characters as part of their written language.

Best,

Wilhelm