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Re: USAGE: Dirty words (was: USAGE: Re: Dutch v or f)

From:Maarten van Beek <dungeonmaster@...>
Date:Wednesday, April 24, 2002, 7:12
> Van: Jan van Steenbergen
> When I came to Polish to study, one of the first things I did was buying a > bunch of pornography, in order to learn the words that you cannot find in
the
> dictionaries. This turned out te be really helpful. It gave me a much
better
> understanding of the kind of talk you hear on the street, which is full of
such
> words. A necessary prerequisite for a translator, I think...
So, jumping to the ultimate conclusion, you are a advocating the use of pornographic texts in schools, especially in language classes? Maarten

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Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>