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L O W L A N D S - L - 09 April 2009 - Volume 01<br>
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From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Hellinckx Luc</span></span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>></span><br>


Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L "Careers"</span><br>
<br>
Beste Pat,</p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You wrote:</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: black;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">I sympathise, by the way, on the issue of native
speakers who switch to a different language. Â¬â€ The Dutch are very bad - always
switching to German or English, even when I ask that they don't.</span></span></p>



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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There's a
very, very thin line between being just plain friendly (trying to accomodate)
and showing off...up to you to decide what the reason was *s*.</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>

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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>

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