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05.07.2017, 21:30
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| | Re: Affenpincher dogs | Quote: | |  | | | My reasons for asking ex-pats:
1. You are smart, resourceful people who, on varying levels, empathize with a young woman leaving the country of her birth.
2. You have a realistic view of Switzerland, deeper than my readers' are expected to have but not as pedantic as a scholar's. I want to write a believable story, not a textbook, so if it passes muster with you, it should be fine.
3. I was an ex-pat for many years and appreciate the spirit of the community. | | | | | 4. we speak english and you don't speak german, french, italian or any other language for that matter.
interested to know just what profile your average reader would have?
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05.07.2017, 21:42
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| | Re: Affenpincher dogs | Quote: | |  | | | 4. we speak english and you don't speak german, french, italian or any other language for that matter.
interested to know just what profile your average reader would have? | | | | | Actually we do speak french, german, italian, etc. It is the OP who only speaks english.
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05.07.2017, 21:43
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| | Re: Affenpincher dogs
i didn't mean 'we _only_ speak english'. i meant we speak english.
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05.07.2017, 21:46
| | Re: Affenpincher dogs | Quote: | |  | | | i didn't mean 'we _only_ speak english'. i meant we speak english. | | | | | I don't.
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06.07.2017, 02:17
| | Re: Affenpincher dogs | Quote: | |  | | | My reasons for asking ex-pats:
1. You are smart, resourceful people who, on varying levels, empathize with a young woman leaving the country of her birth.
2. You have a realistic view of Switzerland, deeper than my readers' are expected to have but not as pedantic as a scholar's. I want to write a believable story, not a textbook, so if it passes muster with you, it should be fine.
3. I was an ex-pat for many years and appreciate the spirit of the community. | | | | | Not everyone on here is an ex-pat. Plenty of restless natives:
1. Not all of us are female.
2. You'd be surprised.
3. And yet the penny still hasn't dropped...
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06.07.2017, 02:35
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| | Re: Affenpincher dogs
1. All of us have moms and many of us have sisters and nieces.
2. If I say something impossibly stupid like Zurich is south of Ticino, someone is bound to pick it up.
3. But has the franc dropped?
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06.07.2017, 04:24
| | Re: Affenpincher dogs | Quote: | |  | | | 3. But has the franc dropped? | | | | | I'm no economist but the CHF is always pretty stable, no? I mean, banking is a massive deal in CH and all the really wealthy international folk have a Swiss bank account don't they.... So, no. I think it's going to hold. I wouldn't worry.
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07.07.2017, 15:49
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| | Re: Affenpincher dogs
You can't float from Geneva to Montreux!!
If you were going to float anywhere you'd end up near Marseilles!!
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