Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You raise some good points here. English is a particular challenge in an international environment like the LUG because it is spoken in so many places with its own particular expressions and nuances. When I moved to Belgium in '95, I found that everyone at my company spoke excellent English (it is our working language). But I also quickly learned to avoid using American expressions which most Europeans and indeed many people in the UK would not understand. For example, "batting 1000", "Monday morning quarterback", etc. Conversely, there are British expressions which will confuse many Americans; e.g. I am now going to have a fag, and the time is almost half seven... Nathan GBICKET wrote:SNIP > .This is a request for all LUGgers to extend all LUGgers the courtesy and the > consideration of trying to make ourselves easily understood. - -- Nathan Wajsman Overijse, Belgium Photography page: http://members.tripod.com/~belgiangator/index.html Motorcycle page: http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/downs/1704/index.html