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4 Dave Barry Quotes on Language

Dave Barry quotes on language

  1. What was life like in the colonies? Probably the best word to describe it would be 'colonial'.

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  2. I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

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  3. The best way to learn Japanese is to be born as a Japanese baby, in Japan, raised by a Japanese family.

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  4. Ha ha! We are just poking a little friendly fun at Germany, which is famous for enjoying a good joke, or as the Germans say, 'Sprechnehaltenzoltenfussenmachschnitzerkalbenrollen.' Here is just one hilarious example of what we are talking about:

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