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From: giacomet@haley.ecn.purdue.edu (Frederic Giacometti)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: French dictionary wanted
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.140856.12159@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 14:08:56 GMT
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In article <157232@felix.UUCP> asylvain@felix.UUCP (Alvin "the Chipmunk" Sylvain) writes:
>Those of you in France, Germany, or wherever, who are reading this,
>forgive me if I can't communicate in your native tongue.  Americans tend
>to be very bad at other peoples' languages.  If you have the solution to
>this problem, please post your response in English if possible, or at
>least provide a translation.


 This last one sounds humoristic to me. Your request for an English version
seems to point that you don't intend to make much effort to palliate
your linguistic weaknesses. In light of this, I find the first part and
your request for forgiveness pretty much out of context :-)


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