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Message no. 1
From: Frank Steinhauer <steinhau@**********.UNI-FRANKFURT.DE>
Subject: foreign languages ???
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 14:44:57 +0100
>
> On Mon, 13 Feb 1995, Inquisitor wrote:
>
> > Vinden de Nederlanders het niet klote om altyd in het klote engels te moeten
> > schrijven? Ik ben geen nederlander maar iik heb een nederlandse vriend.
>
> Nani? Gomen kudasai, ano...wakarimasen desita. Eigo kudasai.
>
> Marc
>
Und was heisst das bitte ???? Wie waers, jeder redet jetzt in einer anderen
Sprache, sodass niemand mehr jemand versteht....
In other words, what do you think 'bout talking in plain english ??
Or at least translate :-) OK, CU !
Message no. 2
From: pran r mukherjee <pran@*****.UMICH.EDU>
Subject: Re: foreign languages ???
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 1995 15:39:14 -0500
> > Nani? Gomen kudasai, ano...wakarimasen desita. Eigo kudasai.
> >
> > Marc
> >

This actually means "What? I'm sorry, umm, I didn't understand. English
please." It was written using the Jorden romanization method, which many
people think is rather bizarre.
Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: foreign languages ???
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 11:32:59 +0100
>Und was heisst das bitte ???? Wie waers, jeder redet jetzt in einer anderen
>Sprache, sodass niemand mehr jemand versteht....
>In other words, what do you think 'bout talking in plain english ??
>Or at least translate :-) OK, CU !

IMHO there are more German-speaking people on this list than there are
Dutch, so "your" trick wouldn't work half as well as "ours" :) (better
drop
this thread before we get kicked off the list for wasting bandwidth :)


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