>>>>I think we'd have some long interesting chat, old mate, to pass away the endless months, and I'd end up speaking croatian.
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>>>Well I was born into Serbocroatian, and since our Croatian neighbors left and took their rake and returned our ladder, I'm left poorer with just Serbian. I can't vouch that I can speak proper Croatian nowadays. I understand everything there, of course, but I'd never pass for one of them - can't hide the accent, sentence construction and choice of words.
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>>>Just add a few Martian years to learn the subtle differences between Serbian and Croatian, and then we can move to finer points in my local dialect :).
>>>
>>>> Heaven forfend my crew-mate were Nick (note the subjunctive case there) - straight out the airlock.
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>>>Case? C'mon, there are no cases in English :).
>>>
>>>Um... Nick who? Mason? I'm amazed that he still reads us :).
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>>Always watching Terrys spelling :-)
>
>Watching more than one? :)
Another member of the pedants club breaks cover :-)
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