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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font><br></font></p><div style="text-align:left"><font>From: <span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"></span></span></font><span class="gI"> <span name="Isaac M. Davis" class="gD">Isaac M. Davis</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com">isaacmacdonalddavis@gmail.com</a></span></span><font><span><span name="Hellinckx Luc"></span><span><a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a></span></span><br>
Subject: </font><span class="gI">LL-L "Travels" 2012.08.24 (03) [EN]</span><font><span></span><span><br></span></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 6:51 PM,
Paul Finlow-Bates <<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote:<div class="im"><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left">Subject: <span>LL-L "Travels" 2012.08.24 (01) [EN]</span><span><br><br></span><div>
<span>Only ever met one Quebecois French speaker, in Algeria.
Couldn't understand a word. The French and Belgians seemed to have no
problems, and I could understand them, but not Pierre. But he spoke
perfect English anyway.</span></div><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:13.33px;background-color:transparent"><span></span></div></div><div style="text-align:center">
</div></blockquote></div></div><div><br></div>That's
the reaction of a lot of non-native speakers of European French, I
gather. Me, I often have a hard time following Parisians, what with all
their mergers of vowels that should be distinct ('pan bran', brown
bread).<font><br></font><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Isaac M. Davis<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><br>"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master."<br>—Abraham Lincoln</div></font><br>
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