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  1. 17th June 2005, 17:18 #31
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big Dave
    Rudimentary english and even ruder German.

    means I can sing 'two world wars and one world cup - doo dah - doo dah'
    to recalcitrant BMW riders in their native tounge.
    Ah but they got their revenge didn't they. They foisted the klunkenkrunchenklonkenbox on the world.
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    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
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    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer
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    Speak fluent English, Afrikaans and Zulu. Learnt (and lost) a bit of the German language in school.

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    I speak fluent british.. None of this international muck.

    Also, tend to learn languages when I need them and forget them after. The old intensive Berlitz course is really good for that (not sure if NZ has that technology yet).

    French, German, Russian and Hebrew are all languages i've had to learn over the years and I can quite happily say, forgotten.

    I have a slight problem with hebrew because my english accent stops me pronouncing some of the sounds. Also Arabic is a problem too. Havnt mastered the art of spitting on my foot for some syllables.
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    Ive done 2 and a half years of German at school.
    im going there in september for 3 weeks
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    Quote Originally Posted by SkOrM
    Ive done 2 and a half years of German at school.
    im going there in september for 3 weeks
    What, school?
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    Latin and English. Although Latin's more writing based rather than speaking based.
    And I can understand basic Maori.
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    American south english, So-Cal english and a smathering of pirate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waylander
    American south , So-Cal and a smathering of pirate.
    We're TEACHING you English
    Quote Originally Posted by skidmark
    This world has lost it's drive, everybody just wants to fit in the be the norm as it were.
    Quote Originally Posted by Phil Vincent
    The manufacturers go to a lot of trouble to find out what the average rider prefers, because the maker who guesses closest to the average preference gets the largest sales. But the average rider is mainly interested in silly (as opposed to useful) “goodies” to try to kid the public that he is riding a racer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ixion
    We're TEACHING you English
    Yea but I still talk in the above mentioned, as opposed to what I type in.

    Also I thought that you only apitalise the word english or germen and such if you were talking about the people not the languages?
    Last edited by Waylander; 19th June 2005 at 17:20.

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