On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Thomas Bohn <thb...@gmail.com> 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
I use "sir" often. But then I'm not a native English speaker. I'm Canadian. cheers, frank ;-) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
