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Subject: [OM] Re: OT English snobs
From: "Jez Cunningham" <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2005 12:46:42 +0100
"despite taking two years of German at the University of Tennessee and actually 
getting credit for all six quarters. "

So you bunked off the Math(s) class then?  :-)

br
jez

----- Original Message -----
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx 
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx 
Subject: [OM] OT English snobs
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 20:23:50 +0000

> 
> Let me say here and now that I have immense admiration for anyone who 
> can speak or write in more than one language.  If English ain't your 
> first language, and if you can say or write anything I can understand 
> in it, you're my hero and I won't criticize you even a smidgen.  
> English is all I know, despite taking two years of German at the 
> University of Tennessee and actually getting credit for all six 
> quarters.  I spent too much time learning girls and baseball, I 
> guess.  Today, I can remember most of the German cuss words, but not 
> much else.
> 
> Is it "Ein Bier, bitte" or "Eine Bier, bitte"?
> 
> Walt, eine (or ein) dummkopf.
> 
> --
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