I wouldn't be too hard on him, he's a bureaucrat, he's probably
unintelligible in German as well...
On 2/1/2010 11:13 AM, Thomas Bohn wrote:
Moin,
One of my English teachers in school warned us about the usage of the
word "Sir", because as non-native speakers we could hit the wrong tone
w/o even knowing it.
And now I just have to bring in the future EU energy commissioner
Günther Öttinger and his attempt to speak English in public:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAohH3I01l0
Thomas
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