Re: Ward's Article (No Audi C

["Douglas Hurst Quebbeman" <dougq@iglou.com>]

> >You should hear German opinions on how you guys pronounce their
> >language.
> Goes both ways.  Germans butcher English.  Many pronounce v's as w's as if
> English were Latin.  Most pronounce English very "strictly" or "harshly",
> which ahrownd Bawstin gesya in'tah troubah, 'cordin tah Chaaalie :)  I
> think it's universal and just a fact of life that people don't like other
> people's langauges.  I certainly don't blame the German...

Everyone on both sides of this euation should check out the following
link:

    http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~churchh/awfgrmlg.html  

and you'll get an intimate opinion of the German language intelligently 
rendered by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) from his 1880 book "A Tramp
Abroad." Most enjoyable is his translation *into* German of "The Tale of the 
Fishwife".

Living as a Happy Collision of German & English genepools, -dq
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