Dear Richard Landes,
As a benevolent and symphatetic onlooker surfing on this website I would like to add a sort of advice, even if this will not be put on the Talkback board. As a highly professional expert – and a native English speaker I suppose – you simply CANNOT make a grammatical error in English, like in the last sentence of the one before the last paragraph: “No creature, no matter how powerful, can survive if it’s senses betray it, especially in a war zone.” Correctly not “it’s” senses, but “its senses” without the apostrophe. I am NOT a native English speaker, English is not my mother tongue (it is (“it’s”!!!) Hungarian), but this is a very ugly error from a writer-journalist-academic, please choose I don’t know which exactly. I know this type of error especially wel since our teacher in high school punished for making such an error more than 10 years ago…
Yours faithfully,
Gabor Fränkl (29)
P.S.: If you decide not to publish this post, then at least please call Mr. Landes’s attention to my observation and remark, please – for his sake.
