Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've been told that Latinos in Fredericksburg, Texas, speak English with a German accent. Then again, in Fallbrook, CA, home of the White Aryan Resistance, some of the native born English speaking Americans sport a German accent. It's the darndest thing! Slobodan Dimitrov - ---------- >From: "Bill Lawlor" <wvl@infinex.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: [Leica] Re: OT, Deutch in USA >Date: Sun, Nov 23, 2003, 4:50 PM > > In August, 1989 I boarded a tour bus at Checkpoint Charlie for a day in East > Berlin. The guide was a woman who taught English in an East Berlin High > School. She and I sat together at lunch and she said she was amazed at what > good German was spoken by American High School students she had met. I > explained that there still exist pockets of German language speakers and > their descendants in the mid-west, and Texas. Schools there have serious > German language offerings. > > Bill Lawlor > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html