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>>O thank god, I thought I had just become dyslexic ( or that they were just very bad spellers ... )
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>No its ok Peter and Jean where just being rude.
>Imagine a room full of people having a conversation
>where suddenly two people slip into another language for a short (private) chat. What could they be saying ? Complimentary, I think not.
Actually, I used to spend a lot of time with Levantines. They would sometimes switch languages four times in the same sentence <g> Never really bothered me, doesn't bother me here unless the message is to me.
Have to admit Dutch leaves me kind of cold as a language and doesn't inspire me to want to learn it ( probably also because they all seem to speak English as well as I do and spell it better )
But I encourage any Catalan speakers to post in Catalan. I don't understand that either but it actually looks like a language I *should* understand <bg>
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