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> One day in Indonesia, while waiting at the bank for a transaction
> to happen
> (talk about "bureaucrats with a little power"!!) an elderly westerner sat
> down beside me and spoke to me in Dutch, which I read but do not really
> speak. So with apologies I answered back in my Lotte-Lenya German, and we
> had a quite coherent conversation for 10 minutes or so.
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> Watched a British TV detective drama the other night-- subtitles would
> certainly have helped.
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You should watch Snatch and Lock Stock!
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