>>> If you don't mind me asking -- how many languages do you speak,

>> Only the most important one :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

> Give it a few more years.. ;-))))

Indeed.

>> Had a surprisingly hard time with USAian.
>> ________________
>>
>> Somewhere in Arizona, 2003:
>>
>>    Have you got any ice?
>>            Ace?

        ...


> LOL. :) Was it a native speaker of American English?

Yes, as far as I could tell :-)


> We have a large immigrant population in Arizona. Phoenix is a very
> diverse
> place -- one of the reasons I like living here.

My lingering memory of Phoenix will be of walking up to an idling car
on a 45C summer day while wearing sandals and finding that the
(usually) warm air wafting out from under the car raised my feet
instantly to severe pain level.

I reason that the air coming off the exhaust system is potentially at
100-200 C but usually mixes with ambient air at the 20C level and
therefore only feels "warm" to bare feet. When ambient is 45C you only
need to raise it by 15 to 20 C to make it very painful.  I didn't try
this in Death Valley :-)



        Russell



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