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Old March 26th 08, 10:26 AM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london,misc.transport.urban-transit
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"Lüko Willms" wrote:

Am Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:50:54 UTC, schrieb Graeme Wall
auf uk.railway :

And speaking some other language than German might be an advantage
when the sales personnel originates from a country whose language you
master.


As for your last paragraph, I speak rather less Turkish than German.


Well, the salesperson might have migrated from Pakistan, Sri Lanka,
or India...


If I put a smiley on the end, would it make it more obvious that I was
cracking a slight (very slight!) joke?

Perhaps I'd better leave out the line about not speaking Urdu.


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