[Gllug] re: any human language

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On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Henrik Morsing moaned:
>> "t.clarke" writes:
>>
>>>Ever tried speaking bad french in France and being understood ? :-)
>>
>> Yep. Seems to work quite well. In fact, you can get away with grunts and
>> hand gestures and still manage a reasonable level of comprehension. Human
>> communication has a remarkable level of redundancy.
> 
> Nope, must be a different country. The french won't accept *any* attempt
> to speak french at them.

s/French/Parisians/

but that's just Parisian anti-provincialism.

>                          The german  on the other hand, understand pretty
> much anything you say to them.

Yes, including French, English, Italian...

... many of them would likely be stumped by Finnish, but using Finnish
on previously unexposed people without consent violates the Geneva
Convention.

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