On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote: > Also, don't sweat the language thing. Especially in the > Netherlands where everyone seems to speak English with breathtaking > acuity, you'd have zero problem. Walking around Glasgow, you might find > the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never.
There are worse cases. There's a place called "London", where a sign says "Sloane Square" yet the station announcement (by a person paid to have clear diction) says "Ten Ske". So people in, say, Stockholm, bother to learn English, people in London don't. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Ivan was a wordly man: born in St. Petersburg, raised in ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Petrograd, lived most of his life in Leningrad, then returned ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ to the city of his birth to die. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
