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Lingua franca
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I ate at a new Turkish restaurant. The Hungarian server and her headscarved Turkish colleague where chattering exitedly -- in German. While the Hungarian one's German was rather broken groundschool-level, the Turkish one's was native level. How and why did she get to this austere place, I wondered. On leaving, I ventured to tell her 'Thank you -
Danke schön
" -- she lit up with a smile to the ears.
*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by
DoDo
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Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 12:49:18 PM EST
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If it hadn't been for Hitler we'd all be speaking German already.
En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna.
-- Gil de Biedma
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And the U.S.
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wouldn't be a military-industrial state either.
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And if it hadn't been for Roosevelt we'd all be speaking Russian...
Peak oil is
not
an energy crisis. It is a
liquid fuel
crisis.
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