On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:16:33 +0100, "scott" <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:

>> I know. I once heard a woman use three languages in one sentence at 
>> Eindhoven
>> railway station. French, Dutch and English.
>
>Or the guy who bumped into me in a bakery that then proceeded to use 4 
>different languages in sequence until I acknowledged him :-)
>

I pre-empt that by speaking first, if I can.

>>>to see a newspaper write 'kompjoeter', unless for humoristic affect.
>>>
>>
>> I like the Dutch sense of humour
>
>I always like to annoy my German teach by deliberately (incorrectly) 
>pronouncing obviously-foreign words the German way.  Although admittedly 
>sometimes it is hard to know which foreign words to pronounce their way or 
>the original way.  But still I can't help myself when I see "Job", it's just 
>crying out to be pronounced "Yob" :-)
> 

Ja! LOL
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Regards
     Stephen

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