Re: OT: semi-OT: bilingual communication

    Long time ago, a few ex-Legionaires, their friends and I were talking
(about 20-25 people). It was quite polyglot at times (bastardized French,
several Englishes, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, and Vietnamese) ...
Towards the later hours, everyone - who wasn't drunk under the table - pretty
much spoke either French or English.
    But there was one person who _everyone_ insisted - er, demanded - that he
speak French rather than Battersea Cockney (overloaded with rhyming slang).
His "English" was damn near "alien." His French was a little easier to
understand - and that wasn't saying much.

Hanuman Zhang, _Gomi no sensei_ [Master of junk]

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