Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/18

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Subject: Re: Vs: Vs: [Leica] OT: Scotch
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 01:24:35 -0400

Brian Reid jotted down the following:

>> Well, a certain Russian pre-emptively collectively flamed us for
>> this very topic recently, but ...
> 
> If you study his use of the English language you will realize that he
> is an American, not a Russian. He's sending email from an account in
> Russia, but that doesn't have to mean that he lives there. His
> sentence structure has a faint Romance edge to it. I'd guess from his
> language patterns that he grew up near Chicago but moved to western Europe
> as a young adult.
> 

Wow!  I'm not sure whether I should be impressed at your analytical ability,
or a little worried that the List Meister reads the messages THAT
carefully... ;)

M.

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