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Bud Rogers <budr@tanet.net> writes:

> years ago our neighbor helped us build a house for my father.  We had
> many horrendous arguments about how to do things until we realized we
> were mostly arguing about language.  Even though we were both using
> English, we were almost speaking two different languages.

Some sources (OK, one) say that language differences where invented
especially to prevent sucsessfull completion of buildings, so this is
not at all surprising :-).

Jan