[WWI] Accents, in general
Allan Wright
aew at unh.edu
Sat Dec 20 11:57:31 EST 2008
America and the United Kingdom - two cultures separated by a common
language.
On Sat, 2008-12-20 at 16:49 +0000, pfalzdvii at comcast.net wrote:
> ASCII doesn't have an accent, so no problems, here. But to tell a tale
> on myself, a few yaers ago at the Chicago Figure Show (MMSI, show,
> Shep Paine's home club show) I was filling out my entry forms, and the
> guy next to me asked me a question, which didn't sound like English,
> so I replied, mildly, "sorry, I don't speak German", to which he
> replied, hotly "that wasn't German, it was LIverpool!", to which I
> apologized again!
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> Merrill Anderson
>
> Your Madness May Vary
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