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To: Tax-chick
I don’t know how many times I tried to teach him to say “Please give me two beers” in French, Spanish, and Japanese. The only time he ever mastered the sentence was Italian.

Too verbose for most monoglot Americans. Consider:

Antakaa minulle kaksi olutta.
versus:
Olut! Kaksi!

462 posted on 03/05/2009 5:05:34 PM PST by sionnsar (Iran Azadi | 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | "Tax the rich" fails if the rich won't play)
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To: sionnsar; Tax-chick; Hot Tabasco

If they don’t speak beer in Finland, I’m not drinking there.


463 posted on 03/05/2009 5:20:42 PM PST by NicknamedBob ("Let me entertain you. Let me make you ..." well, smile isn't quite the right word, is it?)
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