[tex-live] tl2009 with basic scheme

[Joel C. Salomon]

On 11/12/2009 7:21 PM, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
> Reinhard Kotucha<reinhard.kotucha at web.de>  wrote:
>> A Polish friend once told me that at Moscow Airport he was accosted
>> by a charwoman.  He doesn't speak Russian but he was able to say that
>> he didn't understand anything, at least.  The charwoman then asked:
>>
>>    "How can you tell me in Russian that you don't speak Russian?".
>
> i can say i don't speak the language in most of the languages i
> supposedly "learned" at school.

I learned to say it with a believable enough accent that I’m not believed.

Had a professor in school, brilliant lady, PhDs in physics & math, spoke 
three languages fluently: Russian, French, and German; her English was 
“no so goot”.  But, I explained to her, “я не понимаю по-русскии, je ne 
comprends pas français, & Ich verstehe nicht Deutsch.”

Also occasionally handy are “nem beszélek magyarul” and “wo bu hui shuo 
zhong wen”.  (I learned that last one with the correct tones.)

—Joel C. Salomon