--- erik at debill.org wrote: > I once had a hilarious conversation with a young man from France who > was desperately trying to find out what hotel my sister was staying in > on a visit to Paris. He'd somehow managed to track down her home > number in Texas. The catch was that neither of us spoke the other's > language and we had to use Spanish. It worked, but the whole > situation was pretty funny. One I was living in New York City, a Polish penpal of mine came to visit. We corresponded in fluent Esperanto, and we conversed in the same. But when I accompanied him to the Polish consulate we had a strange triangular conversation. I spoke no Polish, he spoke no English, and the consular official spoke no Esperanto. So whenever any one of us spoke, either he or the one who understood him had to interpret for the third person. -- Mark A. Mandel http://cracksandshards.com a Steven Brust Dragaera fan website [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page – Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com