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Article #4549Re: say a word
From: Joona I Palaste
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:48
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:48
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Pete T <not@this.address> scribbled the following: > Joona I Palaste wrote: >> Pete T <not@this.address> scribbled the following: >> > meowmix wrote: >> >> >> Auf Weidersehen Pet was a class TV series indeed. A new one is scheduled for a summer airing. >> >> > Eh? A new series with new characters, are you sure? >> >> Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Sometimes I wonder if not knowing German is a >> prerequisite for living in an English-speaking country... > What makes you say that? > (Incidentally, I don't speak German and I'm from the UK!) Because I see loads of British and American people writing "ie" in German when they mean "ei" and vice versa. The same happens when Swedish people try to write Finnish. No matter how we use "ou" and "uo" in our words, the Swedes always write them the wrong way around. -- /-- Joona Palaste (palaste@cc.helsinki.fi) ---------------------------\ | Kingpriest of "The Flying Lemon Tree" G++ FR FW+ M- #108 D+ ADA N+++| | http://www.helsinki.fi/~palaste W++ B OP+ | \----------------------------------------- Finland rules! ------------/ "It's not survival of the fattest, it's survival of the fittest." - Ludvig von Drake
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From: Joona I Palaste <palaste@cc.helsinki.fi>
Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,alt.english.usage,can.english
Subject: Re: say a word
Date: 2 Apr 2002 17:48:08 GMT
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