[WikiEN-l] Babel template en-5

[Erik Moeller]

On 5/2/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> One of the best writers of English on the projects is Erik Müller, a
> German.  His English is much better than the average English speaker and
> indeed much better than even a lot of Wikipedians.
>
> Even so, I will rarely notice him writing something that doesn't sound
> quite right.  Usually this is not quite an _error_ but just some kind of
> _oddness_.  His English is German-flavored.

The worst thing about it is that I'm speaking and using English so
much that it's taking a toll on my German. Whenever I speak at a
conference in Germany, people later come up to me, with a slightly
confused look, and ask me: "That was very interesting, Mr. Möller, but
I have just one last question. Where are you _originally_ from?"

The Brits tell me I sound American, the Germans tell me I sound like a
foreigner, and the Americans tell me I'm "German flavored". And you
still didn't get the umlaut right, you insensitive clod! ;-) It's
Möller, not Müller. Unless you were talking about some other guy, in
which case you can disregard this posting. ;-)

Erik