In a message dated 9/12/00 8:08:14 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> you must know all my french came from yelling off a scaffold.....

When recovering form cardiac intensive care in Poland I was w/ my friend's
father in his livingroom, whose English is ship captain's English. He was
doing his best to get me back on my feet from a rather down place and a
rather worn out body. For entertainment that evening he sat with me and
interpreted the Polish on a Nova type American television program on
Australia which had a stream of english murmuring in the background. I had
the best Polish, of which I understood very little, and both extremes of
English in one sitting.

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