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echo: fidonews
to: MICHIEL VAN DER VLIST
from: WARD DOSSCHE
date: 2019-05-29 11:13:00
subject: Re: FidoNews 36:21 [01/07

Michiel,
 
Mv> From the few diehards that now remain in R28, nearly all of
Mv> them probably speak English, but I would not be surprised if in Germany
Mv> there is still a significant fraction of paticipants that have not enough
Mv> English skills to participate in English echos. Same for Latin America.
Mv> The ZC4 does not speak English... And then there is Eastern Europe...
 
Plus, as you have pointed-out before, there is a difference between knowing a
language as a native speaker and as a non-native speaker, a lot gets lost in
translation sometimes. For example english-language jokes ... or when you
carefully disect how David Rance expresses himself.
 
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