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[echo2004sierra]

Dandan, it did take 6 weeks for immigration to process my friend's dependant's visa. Further, your response make it sound like you are talking to someone who is paranoid. My friend isn't - hasn't got anything to be paranoid about. I'm not either. Perhaps HKers are jealously protective of their own rice bowls!

I would suggest that you continue visiting your own plastic surgeon since my friend won't need your help in that respect.

Now could anyone offer insight on my question about private tuition and tax.

The aforementioned mother has been persuaded to buy English lessons for daughter and has since found 4 other classmates who want to join in the learning process. My friend is giving receipts and wants to know if this is sufficient when it comes to paying tax time?

[AsiaTraveller]

[echo2004sierra]

Yes, the grammar (pronoun) mistakes are mine not my friends!!! Thank you for pointing them out.

Which of the questions asked would you like to answer?

[once again]

I commend you on the consistency of your mistakes.

[AsiaTraveller]

Those are "grammar mistakes"??? By a native speaker???

Sounds instead like you blew your cover for a brief moment and admitted that the "friend" was you....

[echo2004sierra]

Yes, sir, thanks for your help with those grammar mistakes, they are pretty remarkably consistent, and by a native speaker too! You should hear me when I'm speaking Cantonese!! My friend can't speak a word of it himself!! He sends his thanks along too to the two of you!!! lol.

My friend's offering $10 dollars off an English lesson to mothers who market for him successfully by getting him new students - you know mothers know more mothers. My friend has sweet-talked that "you no Cantonese, no privates" mother into getting him more students!! He is a remarkable fellow, my friend!! Ha, ha, haaaaaa!

Anyway, I digress, to you two lovelies who graced my friend with your replies, answer this if you can:

My friend is giving receipts and wants to know if this is sufficient when it comes to paying tax time?

[AsiaTraveller]

[echo2004sierra]

lol! ex tra pol ation in the extreme there by AsiaTraveller

Don't get carried away, AsiaTraveller my son, my mistakes were of the pronoun type, not of the proper noun sort. hahahahaaaaaaaaaaa

[prplfairy]

Who cares!? Him or his friend or his dog or his barber? It's irrelevant to the discussion.

[Zero Hero]

'Asia Traveller', I think perhaps you need to get out more.

[AsiaTraveller]

Ask yourselves:

How often does a native speaker make three (3) "errors" in pronoun reference in a single sentence when that speaker knows intimately the parties ("he" and "I") involved in the situation?

Almost never -- not even a Freudian slip.

It's not an "error." Echo's clever mask just slipped off for a moment, that's all.

[echo2004sierra]

AsiaTraveller my dear, you have already made that same point in your previous post:-

Those are "grammar mistakes"??? By a native speaker???

Sounds instead like you blew your cover for a brief moment and admitted that the "friend" was you....

I thanked you for pointing out my errors, and for giving your opinion, and I don't think I'm as clever as you, and my friend sends his best regards too!! lol and we both wish that you have a good day, and we promise to try not to make mistakes of the pronoun type again, and we think your comment about the tax form was very funny indeed.

[Zero Hero]

Since superfluous repetition appears to be in order, 'Asia Traveller', I think perhaps you could benefit from getting out more.

That's all.

[AsiaTraveller]

I'm out every day and every night, thank you.

And in my presentations and workshops, I never see native speakers (teachers or not) confuse the prounouns him and me.

Just to repeat again: It ain't a "mistake." Echo really blew it.

[Ger]

AsiaTraveller

Do you think that Echo is suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder?