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- From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
- Subject: Re: An official introduction...
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:54:41 GMT
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- kai@depeche.toppoint.de (Kai Voigt) writes:
- >Fine. Indeed it's morning, sunday morning! But it's not a good morning,
- >it's raining...
-
- Rain? I remember that. It's something to do with water, isn't it?
-
- >>I hate to tell you, but English is becoming the global language by
- >>default...
- >I think you're right. Unfortunately it were the Britains who came
- >to America some hundred years ago. A lot of English words are
- >part of the German language. If I say something about Computers for
- >example half of it would be English :-)
-
- Now I wonder why that might be... :-)
-
- >And vice versa, we have a shop that sells foreign beers from China,
- >Mexico etc. It's even more expensive than French Champaign :-(
-
- Yike! Give me Dom Perignon any day!
-
- >OK! I don't have to hide behind our EXCELLENT beer!!! And if it's the
- >only thing that Germans can do, we brew the best beer in the world.
- >Oh, and we're the Soccer World Cup Winner!!! ;-)
-
- <laughter> Well, I think the Wallabies are still winning...
- Who do you think built the breweries elsewhere in the world! Germans,
- of course. Unfortunately a lot of the locals have got the idea that
- they know how to do it better. That's why some of the places that still
- make beer I like are places that didn't change the formula - czing tao
- for instance :-)
-
- >Yes, I believe you. I won't even try to make up some lines now :-)
- >My English and my poetic abilities are too weak for it...
-
- Would that I could wax poetic in german! Ich habe keine Deutsche!
-
- >Have a nice MONDAY!!! :-)
-
- Well, owing to net.lag it's now Tuesday - but the Oz day holiday! Yay!
-
- Rob
- Official Journeyman-Harper of the RFA
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- Rob Geraghty | 3 things are important to me
- robg@citr.uq.oz.au | The gift of love, the joy of life
- CITR | And the making of music in all its forms
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