[nylug-talk] OT: German talking

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:57:03PM +0000, Zach Stern wrote:
> If thats 10 years of english I'm Linus Torvalds.

Heh Zach, that was the google translation.  Aside from that somewhat
amusing mistyping of guy as gay, Thomas' English seems quite good. 

I'm sure that all of us who have studied other languages have made some
rather interesting mistakes.  I remember a heated argument in Japanese 
with a Japanese woman where, in trying to tell her not to be 
defensive, I shouted, DON'T BE AN ACCOUNTANT.  Of course, she made her 
living by being an accountant, which made it worse.  :)  (The two words
are kaikei and keikai.)  


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