>hello Hilmar.
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>yes, you are correct of course. i actually use the 'oe', etc quite often when chatting with my friend or family.
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>a question i always whanted to ask you: are you from germany?
Sort of. Are you?
I was born in Tübingen, a small university city close to Stuttgart. I have dutch citizenship (my father was from the Netherlands), and I live almost all my life in Bolivia.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)