<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div><span>I'd love to be able to add German to my list of languages. That would help with our regular family visits to Gelsenkirchen :-)</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>mohse<br><span></span></div><div><br></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font size="2" face="Arial"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Korsten <peter@severity-one.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Music-bar <music-bar@lists.music-bar.org><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, October 1, 2011 4:14 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Somewhere...<br></font><br>
Op 2-10-2011 0:43, Joost Schuttelaar schreef:<br><br>> Language police stepping in! :)<br><br>Well, let's see the active posters on this list:<br>* Kai: speaks German as his native language<br>* Gert: speaks German fluently, be it with a rather peculiar accent<br>* Martin: same as Gert<br>* Michael: same as Gert and Martin<br>* Jay: lives in a German-speaking country, and wherever he lives he'll have a rather peculiar accent anyway<br>* Marc: is moving to Berlin, and will no doubt be reading Goethe before you can say 'boo'<br>* Me: speaks German quite well, regardless of what my teachers thought<br>* Tony: is of German ancestry, and visits the country fairly often<br>* Andy: is of Armenian ancestry, which is practically Germany - well, Europe anyway<br>* Mikael: Swedish is basically a funny version of German<br>* You: Dutch is basically a funny version of German<br>* Tom: he speaks a funny version of Dutch, which in itself is a funny version of
German<br>* Kim: Finnish is basically... actually, forget about Kim for a second<br>* Denis: he's Swiss (right?), and most people in Switzerland speak German, after a fashion at least<br>* Romain: doesn't he live rather close to the German border?<br>* Cyrille: I wouldn't call him an 'active poster'<br><br>So there's a rather strong argument to change the lingua franca of this list to German.<br><br>Now, there ARE a few difficult cases, like James, Ron, Bill, Mohsen, and of course the lot from the British isles: Jonny, Paul, Dave, Dong, Tony (the other one), Andrew, Chris, and Declan. But since they're a minority, it would be no more than reasonable that they would start using German, too.<br><br>Right? :)<br><br>- Peter<br>_______________________________________________<br>music-bar mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:music-bar@lists.music-bar.org"
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