Re: [OT] British vs. American English
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:00 +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2011-10-04, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> >
> >> http://www.imninalu.net/famousGypsies.htm
> >
> > I know about Chaplin, but didn't know that Brynner and Caine are gypsies
> > too. And I know about Reinhardt, a Sinti. No Nikola Tesla, perhaps they
> > just claimed he was from Jugoslavia.
> >
>
> What's funny about those famous gypsies is that the great majority of them
> aren't very famous at all. Or maybe I'm culturally deprived.
IMO "the great majority of them aren't very famous at all", I never
heard about most of them before.
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