OT:Favor needed

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 06:40:14PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
>> when you call tech support somewhere and get someone with English as a 27th
>> language
>
>Ironically, if you *did* get someone for whom English really was their
>27th language, you likely wouldn't have a problem: anyone with 27
>languages under their belt is likely more literate than you or I.  :-)

My sister lived in Tehran for ten years, and her Pharsee is probably better
than most most native speakers.  Sally's motivation to learn Pharsee was
mostly that here children were speaking it and English, and she wanted to
understand what they said.

Bill
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