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Tony Hardie-Bick EMAIL HIDDEN
Sun Oct 2 01:18:54 CEST 2011


Al's gut... 

Tony (Habs versteh'n Besser auf deutsch)

Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:

>Op 2-10-2011 0:43, Joost Schuttelaar schreef:
>
>> Language police stepping in! :)
>
>Well, let's see the active posters on this list:
>* Kai: speaks German as his native language
>* Gert: speaks German fluently, be it with a rather peculiar accent
>* Martin: same as Gert
>* Michael: same as Gert and Martin
>* Jay: lives in a German-speaking country, and wherever he lives he'll 
>have a rather peculiar accent anyway
>* Marc: is moving to Berlin, and will no doubt be reading Goethe before
>
>you can say 'boo'
>* Me: speaks German quite well, regardless of what my teachers thought
>* Tony: is of German ancestry, and visits the country fairly often
>* Andy: is of Armenian ancestry, which is practically Germany - well, 
>Europe anyway
>* Mikael: Swedish is basically a funny version of German
>* You: Dutch is basically a funny version of German
>* Tom: he speaks a funny version of Dutch, which in itself is a funny 
>version of German
>* Kim: Finnish is basically... actually, forget about Kim for a second
>* Denis: he's Swiss (right?), and most people in Switzerland speak 
>German, after a fashion at least
>* Romain: doesn't he live rather close to the German border?
>* Cyrille: I wouldn't call him an 'active poster'
>
>So there's a rather strong argument to change the lingua franca of this
>
>list to German.
>
>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.
>
>Right? :)
>
>- Peter
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