Klarinet Archive - Posting 001011.txt from 2000/01

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] americans and foreign languages
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 07:53:52 -0500

At Sat, 29 Jan 2000 10:09:56 -0600, Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.EDU>
wrote

>> [snip]

It is with some painful memories

[snip]

that I confess a total ignorance of French words

etc
<<

Guess some of you guys were already expecting a reaction from me. But I
won't. I only want to refer you to that American who was an ambassador in
the former Sowjet Union, and after some twenty or twenty five years in
Moscow still wasn't able to speak the Russian language. Or to the LA teacher
of French who to me pronounced these immortal words: "I teach French. But I
don't speak it." In reading confessions like this I always feel some
malicious joy. And you know (probably not) the German saying "Die groesste
Freude ist Schadenfreude"

Rien

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