Terry,

>>>I thought, "how could she know how I, as an English speaker, perceive Germans over here?". I also have a German colleague who's within chatting distance of me.
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>>I guess you mean "perceive" in the sense of "take notice of"?
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>(whatever the joke is) No - as in "experience" or as the Americans might say "internalise" (yuk!)
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Now I'm even more puzzeld. Anyway, I've got the general idea. ::)

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>>Just kidding::)
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>Just as well or I might have had to take it out on my colleague :-)

No need to confuse somebody else. ::)

Agnes