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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: ®i©ardo®i©ardo Date: Aug 16, 2008 12:48
zed wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:33:08 +0100, ®i©ardo nowhere.com> wrote:
> >> zed wrote:
>>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:14:48 +0100, ®i©ardo nowhere.com> wrote:
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>>>>>>> Interesting stuff. As I recall there was a doctor, or surgeon, in a
>>>> Welsh hospital a few years ago who, fed up with the stream of notices in
>>>> foreign languages to cater for those members of staff whose English
>>>> language ability was limited, issued a few in Welsh. He was severely
>>>> reprimanded for doing so.
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>>> Yes of course - did the bloke in the pub tell you anything else of
>>> interest he'd got from the Daily Mail?
>> As you obviously frequent pubs and read the Daily Mail, you tell me. It
>> was, in fact, reported in the Daily Telegraph within the past couple of
>> years.
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> Ah yes - the aspiring man's Daily Mail. Do you actually have a
> reference for the story?
>
As I've said it was within the past couple of years. Had it not been
published I wouldn't have read it, but it stuck in my mind because it
was on of a few occasions when I felt genuine sympathy for a militant
Welsh speaker.
Stick to the Sun mate, at least you've got lots of pictures to guide you
- if you've progressed from The Star, that is. Hang on, perhaps you're a
Guardian man.
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Moving things in still pictures!
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