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CHAT: Rugxa Nano

From:Anton Sherwood <bronto@...>
Date:Thursday, November 29, 2001, 18:04
Matthew Pearson wrote:
> . . . one of the main characters, Arnold Rimmer, has been studying > Esperanto for eight years and still can speak a word of it.
Not quite true ...
> He attempts to say "Your father looks like a water buffalo's behind > and your mother spent most of your childhood between walls and > sailors", but it comes out "Please send for the hotel porter, there > seems to be a frog in my bidet".
... he says it quite well. ("Bonvolu alsendi la pordiston: lawsxajne estas rano en mia bideo. And I think we all know what THAT means.") Which episode is that? -- Anton Sherwood -- http://www.ogre.nu/

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