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Subject: Re: Get out Mr Waitzskin Voice of CM8000 or Get him Into School Again...

Author: Pete R.

Date: 09:09:17 05/26/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 18:19:13, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi:
>If you have some influence in the proceedings of the CM team, I would appreciate
>very much if you can ask them to replace the current voice of Mr Waitzkin we
>must tolerate in CM6000 as much as it is, for a non english native  speaking
>citizen of the world, absolutely nasty and unintelligible. I even bet the same
>is for any guy of the States that was not raised in Brooklyn, N.Y. An
>alternative is to ask him an extra effort of correctness in the use and
>enunciation of his own language, asking him to do goo use of all the sounds that
>constitutes human talking instead of eating them as if caught in a rush of
>extreme hunger.

LOL!  Fernando, I have no opinion on this subject, but I must comment in another
area.  You posted recently that you appreciate how some posters here write in
English.  I have to say the same for you, I find your colorful use of English to
be very entertaining. :)  I mean this in the best way.  Your English, although
perhaps not grammatically perfect, is easy to understand, and has a unique
flavor to it.  I speak a number of languages, and I understand that expressions
in one language may not have an exact equal translation that captures the same
humor or essence of thought in another.  It's something that makes languages
interesting, and sometimes in trying to convey a thought you may come up with a
way of saying something that would not occur to a native speaker.  The colorful
visual of your last sentence above is a good example.  It's nice to see English
with a little different spice to it. :)



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