"El Maximo" wrote in message
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> "Mortimer Schnerd, RN" wrote in message
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>> If Won Wing Low had been the Father of Aviation, it could have been!
>>
> Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich
> overheard the following:
> Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
> Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
> Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
> Germany. Why must I speak English?"
> Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because
> you lost the bloody war."
>
I think we can all rest assured teach the world to speak understandable
English is not a long term problem. Everything will be going to Spanish in a
few years anyway.
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