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To: Patrick Slevin who wrote (593)	1/6/1998 7:38:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 4711

Hi Patrick, I do not wish to tar the French with the one brush but I have a funny story to tell you. I took immersion french in college. My teacher was a wonderful lady, very sweet and funny. One day when visiting France (Paris to be exact), after receiving her doctorate in french, she tried to ask for directions in french, on a train. The conductor looked down his nose at her and said in a very thick accent "Madame, my english much better than your french. Please speak english." She warned us that no matter how hard we tried, THEY would always be able to tell we were American by our accents. She did say the folks in the countryside were extremely nice, and were very sweet about her french.

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