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23rd June 2007, 14:10 #1Senior Member
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Eskimos' Hundred Words for Snow?!
So Citroen are having another very good year in the WRC. Strange thought came to mind whist I was watching a WRC program that had a item in it about how many languages that are spoken in the teams.
And it made me think…..
If you have a French Driver, French Co-driver, pace notes in French, French Team and French Manufacture. Do things get communicated better then a Norwegian Driver, Welsh Co-driver, English Pace notes, English Team and Japanese Manufacture?
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23rd June 2007, 15:18 #2Senior Member
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Absolutely. If you watched the SWRT documentaries, you'd see that head campaign leader in Japan says communication via Japan and Banbury is quite a challenge, concerning language and time zones. I think most of SWRT by now understand Petter well enough (allthough his Norwegian is lowsy), so there will be no encounters to communication. Anywho, I do think Citroën has an advantage here.
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23rd June 2007, 15:35 #3Senior Member
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his norwegian is lowsy? hows that? wasnt he born in Norway...
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23rd June 2007, 16:30 #4Senior Member
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+ FIA HQ in Paris, France
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Another Flying Finn
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But topic name needs answer "20 words" or it's just metaphorical.
aerobatics becomes more interesting when couple of guns atached to wings.:cool:
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Sorry for upsetting the 'PC' community with the title
, please revise to "Inuit Hundred Words for Snow?! " 
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Must've meant his English is lousy. It's not so much Petter's English, but his heavy accent that makes him tough to understand at times... especially when he's angry or upset. Loeb's English is awful if you ask me. I hate listening to him in interviews, it all "uhh" or "ahh", blah, blah, blah. That said, Originally Posted by jonas_mcrae
I know for sure that my French is WAY worse than his English, so I can't really gripe can I. LOL!!!
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24th June 2007, 22:51 #8Senior Member
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Sorry yes, of course English that was lowsy, loong day
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25th June 2007, 06:59 #9Senior Member
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both petter and sebastien speak perfect english
don't judge by interviews
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25th June 2007, 16:35 #10Senior Member
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yeah I think they speak english well enough..
if you see fe. Valentino Rossi, he got 5 world titles with Jerry Burgess, while Valentino does not speak english proper!RIP Marco Simoncelli
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