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usually suffices in person, or. .the glasses being lowered or raised on the nose with said digital extremity (taught to me by the mayor as we sat through endless meetings). Online, since many sites frown on invective, it's remdi95.

You are much nicer than I about the "I speak american" group. In my most syrupy voice, "Reallllly??? There are some 540 recognized tribes. With which one are you enrolled??"

As I said, you are in a class almost by yourself! I seem to remember you mentioning your very linguistic friend a time or two overr the years. You both remind me of a report (story?) I heard years ago about how the Foreign Services office had suddenly lost half their translation specialty division overnight with the death of a man who spoke something like 13 languages.