Re: OT: Is your English good enough to make it in London?

From: Shez (UseReplyAddress_at_nospam.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 01:10:07 +0000

In the faraway land of sci.lang.japan, napurenon <napurenon@hotmail.com>
said:
>http://englishtown.msn.co.jp/home/test/quiz.asp?quizId=12
>
>I got a dismal 7/10! Very bad considering I live in England, and have
>been to London a number of times.
>Only seems to work with Internet Explorer.

Is my English good enough to make *what* in London? With Firefox all I
see are two rectangles which say "Flash: click to play" so I guess I get
0/10. Nevertheless my English is good enough to survive in London, going
by the proof of the pudding principle. As long as you know that
"Leicester" is pronounced "Lester" and "Greenwich" is pronounced
"Grenich", and know what Centrepoint looks like, and that the buses and
tubes turn back into pumpkins and mice at midnight, and are not freaked
out by being watched by CCTV cameras at every turn, you can probably
make it in London. 

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