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Bonjour Jan,

Well, maybe now you can understand why so few Froggies are able to speak 
English ... // kidding, bcoz the real reason is that we are lazy abt learning 
foreign languages and maybe also we are a bit like ... US/UK citizens abt 
English (!) : French used to be a widely used language so we may think 
that "everyone should know it". Officialy, French is still one of the languages 
used in diplomacy but further than that ... 

Now abt cricket, it was some kind of joke. Not the fact that we really have to 
study it, but the choice of the text. Some kind of recreation (!!).
I remember that the text was at the beginning of the book, with some funny 
picture of a cricket player.

You are right abt the fact that when someone stops using a language, he starts 
to forget it. BTW, congrats abt Japanese ! I used to learn some words (no more 
than 10, hi ! The funniest one I know is the litteral meaning of  "Itadakimas", 
pure Japanese style !

> Did the Olympics include soccer?

Now, mon cher Jan, it seems that some people around here are making some 
conspiracy on my back to force me to get interested in sport ... :o))
Ok, Ok ... I will enter your game ... ! Oh boys, you will kill me ...
As far as I know (pse correct me if wrong), up to the last Olympics, Soccer was 
not part of it, but I _think_ it has been introduced in the last edition.
Now, guys, if I am _right_ with this assertion, I hope you will be OK to say 
that I do deserve some special sport medal for knowing that ;o))
And, YES, I know that the next edition of the Olympics will take place in 
Greece ! I do not read the daily sport newspaper, just taking the subtrain and 
train to go to my job and so seeing ... ads/commercials (!) on the walls. 
Summer is approaching and we can now see some info abt Tourist Agencies 
offering charter trips to Greece and other places. And the "motto" for Greece 
is : "Land of the Olympics. Come to visit us". One of the sponsor for this ad 
being some "Olympics 2004 - Greece".
As would have NOT said S.H. ... "Elementary" :p

Ohayo !

73!
Claude, F5PBL

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