Re: CHAT: feckly off-topic (was: THEORY: Storage Vs. Computation)

At 17:56 -0700 19.6.1999, Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>At 05:13 PM 6/19/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>dunn patrick w wrote:
>>
>>> Oh, and English?  A friend of mine from France put it best (okay, actually
>>> it was her mother, but who wants to deal with all those annoying
>>> genitives?):  "English sounds like two cats making love in a paper sack."
>>>
>>> Actually, she didn't say "making love."
>>
>>W's French friend's mother's saying English's sound resembles
>>paper-sack's cats's f###ings is just sibilance-shyness, sorry.
>>(This is still on-topic because it says "le chat" is the subj.)
>>
>Dumas says (in The Whites & the Blues) that French is for talking to men,
>Italian is for talking to women, and German is for talking to horses.
>Personally, I talk to my cat in German, too.
I used to talk to my cat in Icelandic while it lived, 'cause the people
around me would complain about me talking an unintelligible foreign
language.

I talk in German to my mother, because that's the only way she'll listen to me.
(In spite of knowing Swedish, English and French just as well...)

B-)

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