On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> Also, don't sweat the language thing. Especially in the
> Netherlands where everyone seems to speak English with breathtaking
> acuity, you'd have zero problem. Walking around Glasgow, you might find
> the brogue bewildering, but in Amsterdam? Never.

There are worse cases. There's a place called "London", where a sign says
"Sloane Square" yet the station announcement (by a person paid to have clear
diction) says "Ten Ske".

So people in, say, Stockholm, bother to learn English, people in London
don't.


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