From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 8 16:40:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B73237BB90 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:40:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mellon@jurai.net) Received: (from mellon@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) id TAA55419; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:40:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:40:48 -0400 From: Anatoly Vorobey To: "G. Adam Stanislav" Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000408194048.A55372@sasami.jurai.net> References: <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000408153231.008a8450@mail85.pair.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000408153231.008a8450@mail85.pair.com>; from redprince@redprince.net on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0500 X-Disclaimer: I was young, I needed the money! Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You, G. Adam Stanislav, were spotted writing this on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 03:32:31PM -0500: > At 15:14 08-04-2000 -0400, Brett Taylor wrote: > >I'm heading over to Italy in late June for a bike tour for 9-10 days - > >anyone know any good software/books to help learn enough so I'm not > >totally lost when I get there? > > Here's the first phrase you need to learn: "Non capisco Italiano." It means > "I don't understand Italian." The Italians, in general, are quite willing > to find a way to communicate with foreigners who don't speak their language. > > Best of all, unlike people from one of their neigboring countries, they > couldn't care less about foreign accents. If you are trying to talk > Italian, no matter how broken, they will not pretend they don't understand > just because you don't sound exactly like them. I've always wondered: do people actually *do* that? I can't quite understand why someone would be so obnoxious. And which nations are more susceptible to that behavior? -- Anatoly Vorobey, mellon@pobox.com http://pobox.com/~mellon/ "Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly" - G.K.Chesterton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message