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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Geoff Mayo: [QB] [QUOTE]I was a Pan Am 552 Flight Engineer waiting for start clearance in Munich, Germany. I was listening to the radio since I was the junior crew member. This was the conversation I overheard (I don't recall call signs any longer): Lufthansa: (In German) "Ground, what is our start clearance time?" Ground: (In English) "If you want an answer you must speak English." Lufthansa: (In English) "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?" Beautiful English Accent: (before ground could answer) "Because you lost the bloody war!"[/QUOTE]The French have a habit of speaking in French too, which one day almost caused a major disaster had the non-French but French-speaking pilot of a pilot given directly conflicting instructions on a runway not understood what was said, in French, to the French aircraft. Even us that supposedly learned German at school find it difficult to speak it. It's quite a tough language. A friend and I, after a concert in Cologne in snowy December, attempted to take the subway back to our hotel. The ticket machine was so indecipherable that we ended up walking instead - luckily not too far. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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