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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi again, Alexander!  This is a continuation of my previous message to you:   
      
    AH>  although Miss Stickler turned a deaf ear when I didn't   
    AH>  speak formal English, many of the people I worked with   
    AH>  in the restaurant business seemed genuinely baffled when   
    AH>  I did... [wry grin].   
      
    ak>  Again it depends on the collective you work in.   
      
      
              Uh-huh.  Years ago teachers were expected to model formal English &   
   kids generally got the drift by the time they were in senior high school.  The   
   middle-aged & older adults I knew, though, had in many cases relatively little   
   schooling.  Considering the number whose sons & daughters went to university I   
   don't doubt their intelligence... but I found I had to make a conscious effort   
   to change mental gears just as I did when I was in Miss Stickler's class.  :-Q   
      
      
      
    AH>  Once I lived in some hotel in Grenoble, France   
    AH>  -- all the personal   
      
      
              I think you mean "personnel"... again, a different word.  :-)   
      
      
      
    ak>  was always gloomy and they never smiled. And they   
    ak>  didn't speak English. ;-)   
      
      
              Hmm.  Wikipedia tells me "The region has the second largest English   
   speaking community in France, after Paris."  While it expands on the statement   
   by mentioning students, scientists, and those who work for large manufacturing   
   corporations I found nothing about hotel or restaurant employees... [chuckle].   
      
      
      
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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