Re: Waar kan ik terecht met mijn Archimedes?

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From: Mike Glover
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:00

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>Good old polyglot Mike - not only does his software (Easiwriter /
>Techwriter) cope with multiple languages - he does too. 

Shame on you Alastair, dragging my personal life into this. I haven't
glotted a parrot in years - not even a dead one.-)

The most impressive
>thing I've seen him do language-wise is to be asked by two Portugese
>visitors to Acorn's stand at CeBIT whether he was Brazilian (where they also
>speak Portugese, but with a slight accent). While he always seems to look
>suntanned I'm fairly sure that he isn't Brazilian...

Living 9 years in Brasil '60 - '69 might have some bearing on this.
>
>Mind you, I also remember Gordon Taylor rattling off and having a crowd
>around him at CeBIT like he normally does at any show - get closer and he is
>being Gordon Taylor in "fluent" German. (I quote the term "fluent" because,
>bless him, he was making a nonsense of the grammar - but what did it
>matter?)

I'm sure Gordon would be fluent regardless of language. BTW where is he?
Still packing up after a road show?

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