Why english is important

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 08:14:30PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:
> I have a printed visa for Syria in my old passport.  It contains a number 
> of basic spelling and gramatical errors in the printed text of the visa. 
> Eg, "Numbar of Journeys?".  Next time I'm in Australia (where my old 
> passport is) I'll scan it for the amusement of all.
> 
> Every country on Earth has a large number of people fluent in English.  I 
> expect the University of Damascus has an English department so I am at a 
> loss to understand how a sovereign nation could make such basic mistakes 
> in an important official document.  Oh well, it was a good laugh :)

Almost every sign in Legoland (the original one) has Danish, German and
English on it.  At the bottom of most of them it says:

"If you have any questions, please ask our personal."

My wife and I thought this was rather amusing, given it was the same
error on every single sign.  Given how well done the english usually is
on the packaging from Lego, it seemed rather strange that no one had
bothered to fix this yet.  Never mind that they only bothered to write
half the information for the english part of the signs for most things.

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Len Sorensen
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