[net.nlang] Maps are not an international langua

cabo@tub.UUCP (12/02/85)

Excerpt from a conversation during a trip of mine to the US:

I'm standing at a bus station and talking to someone in German.
Some random lady:  "Where are you from?"
Me:  "From Berlin, Germany."
The lady: "Oh, really?  Did you go all the way by bus?"

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Carsten Bormann, <cabo@tub.UUCP == cabo@db0tui6.BITNET>
Communications and Operating Systems Research Group
Technical University of Berlin (West, of course...)