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Italian?
On 26 Jun 2005 19:44:18 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? |
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Jesper Lauridsen wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? Judging by similar "operating instructions" that accompanied various electronic devices I've purchased, my guess would be Japanese (as run through some "translation" program like "Babelfish".) |
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Lennart Petersen wrote: "Runge" skrev i meddelandet ... Nothing to do with travelling ------------------- Travelling a hotel elevator has definitely something to do with travelling. Especially when the sign-writer's native tongue is so patently NOT English! |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Jesper Lauridsen wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? Judging by similar "operating instructions" that accompanied various electronic devices I've purchased, my guess would be Japanese (as run through some "translation" program like "Babelfish".) Not "respectful" enough to be Japanese. They'd have more profuse apologies. |
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Well look a little more and you'll find out
I know its hard to find among YOUR multiple contributions in evleths threads "Deep Foiled Malls" a écrit dans le message de news: ... On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:53:07 +0200, "Runge" wrote: Nothing to do with travelling And the last time you contributed something was....... -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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Lol
"Lennart Petersen" a écrit dans le message de news: ... "Runge" skrev i meddelandet ... Nothing to do with travelling ------------------- Travelling a hotel elevator has definitely something to do with travelling. |
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Runge wrote:
Well look a little more and you'll find out ....that it takes an hour to fly between London airports and Edinburgh? Amazing insight! -- David Horne- www.davidhorne.net usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk |
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On 26 Jun 2005 19:44:18 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen
wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? German? Gordon |
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On 26 Jun 2005 19:44:18 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen
wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? And the answer is...? -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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On 2005-06-28, Gordon Forbess wrote:
On 26 Jun 2005 19:44:18 GMT, Jesper Lauridsen wrote: From a note in a hotel elevator: "We would like to refer it to which renovation work is accomplished at present in our stairway" Can you guess what language the writer of this delightful prose, speaks? German? We have a winner. It's possible that the author was a native speaker of another language, but the sign was in a German hotel. |
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