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From: aldo@netcom.com (Aldo)
Subject: Re: Importance of German, etc. (Was: English: USA supreme court...)
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Date: Mon, 6 May 1996 22:41:38 GMT
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porges@sunfire.camb.inmet.com (Don Porges) wrote:
>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.

Actually I had a similar experience in Warsaw.  A German speaker confided
to me that in Poland it was advisable to use English instead of German.

Aldo
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