how to make pretty pictures for managers

[Jay Vaughan]

>> No, company policy is that everything has to be done in English, but
>> the meeting will be in German .. Vernünftig!
>
> Toll, was? :)
>

There is no way in hell the French side of the company is ever going  
to learn German, so they compromise and everyone writes English.

> They talk English at work for my sake. Maltese is mostly like classic
> Arabic, like you'll find in the Quran, but then with a hefty dose of
> Sicilian and English thrown in for good measure.
>

Its a fascinating language, I've been reading up on it a bit ..  
apparently nobody speaks true Maltese any more.

> Or the word for 'book' being 'kotba', but 'books' is 'ktieb'... the  
> same
> insane system where the consonants stay the same, but by throwing the
> vowels about you make different words.


That is indeed wierd.

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Jay Vaughan