Re: "Useful languages"
From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
Date: | Thursday, February 14, 2002, 5:58 |
On 13 Feb 02, at 18:53, Roger Mills wrote:
> Somewhere there used to be a whole list of these, devised by linguistic
> students--
>
> "I think I'll go lie in the sun," she said in Basque.
> "Can I come too?" he asked in Tagalog (requiring the same-- very common--
> misapprehension and mispronunciation).
> etc. etc.
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=7u5j6v%24143%241%40eve.enteract.com
To which I might add: "Big Nambas" for talking about finance.
Cheers,
Philip
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