Francois Bruntz wrote:
> You wrote :
> >
> >Dear Francois,
> >
> >You don't sound friendly. You sound like you are about to eat him
> >up
> >in private.
>
> Really? :)
>
> Seriously, I was trying to joke but it's not easy to do that via
> mails and when you don't speak English fluently, so if I offended
> someone, excuse me, all this comes from my Latin side as we use to
> saying in France (we generally consider that French behaviour is
> closer
> to Italian one than to the strict German one...)
Don's sweat it. As your target, I thought you sounded friendly so let
me say this:
NO ONE ELSE GET IN THIS THREAD.
Francois and I have moved it to private E-Mail.
I know, for experience that people tend to get a bit weird about their
country and ethnic groups, and that flame wars tend to get started.
For my part, I am going to start saying "Waterlizt" as my battle example
(That of course, being the great mythic battle where the short man with
the sidewise hat both won AND lost)
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Received on Fri Sep 05 1997 - 16:23:06 UTC