Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:40:48 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000408194048.A55372@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000408153231.008a8450@mail85.pair.com>; from redprince@redprince.net on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0500 References: <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004081513100.81871-100000@peloton.runet.ed u> <3.0.6.32.20000408153231.008a8450@mail85.pair.com>
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You, G. Adam Stanislav, were spotted writing this on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0500: > At 15:14 08-04-2000 -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > >I'm heading over to Italy in late June for a bike tour for 9-10 days - > >anyone know any good software/books to help learn enough so I'm not > >totally lost when I get there? > > Here's the first phrase you need to learn: "Non capisco Italiano." It means > "I don't understand Italian." The Italians, in general, are quite willing > to find a way to communicate with foreigners who don't speak their language. > > Best of all, unlike people from one of their neigboring countries, they > couldn't care less about foreign accents. If you are trying to talk > Italian, no matter how broken, they will not pretend they don't understand > just because you don't sound exactly like them. I've always wondered: do people actually *do* that? I can't quite understand why someone would be so obnoxious. And which nations are more susceptible to that behavior? -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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