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Default best and worst wiener schnitzel

On 3/17/2019 4:11 PM, cshenk wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>
>> On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:26:27 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> says...
>>>>
>>>> On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 9:04:44 AM UTC-4, Janet wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> >,
>>>>>
says...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Saturday, March 16, 2019 at 9:01:36 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:37:43 -0400,
wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> There are fast food joints in California called "Der
>>>>>>>> Weinerschnitzel",,, the most awful dawgs on der planet.
>>>>>>>>
https://www.wienerschnitzel.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Wienerschnitzel, not Weinerschnitzel. Why is this so hard?
>>>>>>> Nobody would write restuarant or barbeceu.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Really? You don't think people would misspell words in their
>>>>>> own language?
>>>>>
>>>>> I doubt a first-language German speaker would.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wein and wien are not homophones, they rhyme with mine and
>>>>> mean.
>>>>
>>>> I know. And they mean, respectively, wine and Vienna.
>>>
>>> Not to some Americans, apparently.

>>
>> I'm sure millions of people all over the world misspell words in
>> foreign languages that they do not speak. I get a chuckle every
>> time I read the menu in a Chinese restaurant.
>>
>>>
>>>> But after years on Usenet, can you doubt that there are
>>>> Americans who could misspell "restaurant" or "barbecue"?
>>>
>>> No. Or those old favourites "ala" rfc, "quisine" and "bullion".

>>
>> I used to think that spelling should be easy for everybody. Each
>> word has a pattern, and I can easily see if the pattern is incorrect.
>>
>> Thirty years with a very intelligent dyslexic has taught me to
>> accept that it's sometimes not a person's fault if they cannot
>> spell or if they make other mistakes with language.
>>
>> It doesn't keep me from taking the mickey out of someone on Usenet,
>> though. That's pretty much always been the second or third purpose
>> of Usenet.
>>
>> Cindy Hamilton

>
> Have fun with me then. Dyslexics Untie! To this day, I have trouble
> with restaraunt. <--- hope that is right. Gasp though, probably not.
>

Restaurant.

Jill