Language bloopers!!! (fwd)

[Devin P Browne]

I hope by now it's clear that the language bloopers were purely posted
for the fun of all.  It goes both ways, too.  I've roared at mistakes
I've seen made in Russian and French.  This is not a message, however, to
"blast" Juoko for not having a sense of humor.  Obviously it was just
taken the wrong way.  Hope it's all cleared up now, and, of course, no
hard feelings, Juoko?  :-)

Devin


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Devin P. Browne                                   Clairton Education Center
Foreign Language Teacher                                 501 Waddell Avenue
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On Mon, 29 Apr 1996, Jouko Lindstedt wrote:

> 1. What has this to do with Slavic and East European languages and
>    literatures?
>
> 2. Unfortunately we who are not native speakers of English have to
>    use English as a lingua franca, and in so doing cannot help
>    producing from time to time sentences that are funny for native
>    speakers. Perhaps you would like to have all hotel instructions
>    and menus in Finnish, Hungarian or Dutch only in those
>    countries?
>
> Jouko Lindstedt
> Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki
> e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi
> http://www.helsinki.fi/~jslindst/