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From: porges@sunfire.camb.inmet.com (Don Porges)
Subject: Re: Importance of German, etc. (Was: English: USA supreme court...)
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Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 21:21:34 GMT
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In article <3188ADD5.3D05@tcs.wap.org>,
Jennifer Elsea  <jennifer.elsea@tcs.wap.org> wrote:
>
>When I visited Prague a few years back, I used German because I had 
>heard it was more widely understood than my English. One evening I 
>found myself seated in a restaurant accross from a young man who was 
>speaking English, although his native language was German. He told me 
>he had heard English would be better understood. I later concluded 
>that everyone seemed better able to understand a common (even when 
>butchered) second language than a language native to just one side.

Or, it may have to do with what the Czechs think of the Germans.
