languages [OT]

[Fluks, H.W.]

Theresa Wiegert wrote on January 16:

> I remember a situation on a gas station near the border 
> between France and
> Germany. A big German man [..]
> was yelling in German to the poor lady behind 
> the desk in the
> station, who apparently didn't understand a word, and in 
> French tried to calm him down

Interesting. Especially since the area of France next to the German border
was part of Germany until 1874 (and again from 1939-1945). Most people there
should still speak a German dialect, as well as the French they learn at
school.
So maybe the German man had another, more hidden, reason to be angry...

--Harry.