*** Quoting LEE LOFASO from a message to CAROL SHENKENBERGER ***

LL> Language and accents vary greatly in different parts of the country.
LL> And people are naturally curious to meet others from faraway places.
LL> In high school, one of my teachers was German.  And he did not always
LL> use perfect English.  Yet he taught English.  Talk about some strange
LL> interpretations of Shakespeare.  To understand it, you had to learn
LL> to appreciate German humor.  Not always an easy task for Cajuns, most
LL> of whom come from a heavily-influenced French culture.  :)

Hehe I had a spanish teacher with pure castillian accent.  I opened my
mount ¨the first day in class when asked 'hows your spanish' to respond
with "habla ¨engleaz? and she just started laughing.  'Oh great,
another one with a cuban ¨accent!' (I grew up in Miami florida til I was
11).
                                       xxcarol

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