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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1960.
SATURDAY MAGAZINE
JAK
and
GEORGE
join a language club .
W WHEN a French-born English-
man (MA, Oxon, son of a Pole) recalls the stormy Indonesian night he ran his motor-scooter into a wild pig on the island of Bali, you could be excused for not quite catching the drift of the_yarn, Tals. 20136, 36361 & 33246, especially when he tells it in Dutch.
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Which is exactly what Jak and I did the other night at The Linguists Club, off Ken- slugton High Street,
My cartooning colleague, I shuld mention, recently moved to Wimbledon Common, and has been having trouble explaining the British credit system to u Greek landlord and a butcher from Budapest. As for myself. I would be the first to admit that my Russian adverbs have been a little off colour of Inte
So we moved smartly, vite, schnell und pronto to become Members Nos. 12740 and 12741 under the gleaming national eye of the founder and principal, Mr A. T. Pilley, a bourcing ball of man who can falk a donkeyfa hind-log oft in almost any language you care fo mention.
Incidentally, if you are think- ing of becoming No. 12742 al six guinean a year, do not be put off by the Russian-looking scrpant on the door, even if he greets you, as he did Jok and me with "Wolchskok!"
Homely
staccato
Its name is George Malster, ha comes from Futhim and he (said he would rather not men- tion the only two foreign words he ever learned.
Anyway! the sergeant jet La inta the Club'a 27- roomed Regency mansion (circa 1832), Where silver-haired Vern Kaiser, all the way, from Vienna, said pleseed-to-meet-you in Germaл. Then she put down our names in Engleh Immediately following those_of H. A. Klakonberg, E Bey E- Araby, the Graf Ferdinand
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OLD CRANALE
SPATS
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Did you ever see an Indian
doing a Scottish reel?
Principat Pilley led us into Britons and aliens alike could his office (nicely done up with chew the fat in one or more of sunshades, African 4 languages, all at once if you Japanese
Indian death-musits
at duggers wished, and
any given moment. bucket of Newcastle cool) and played host with a bottl of Yugoslav slivovitz and a couple of Swedish cigars from Goulash! behind a secret panel disguised Chinese tapestry.
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Mr Pilley said his papa was a Pole, his mother was French, he had been born in Paris, and he made met his Dutch wife in Hol land just after he had read Modern Greats at Oxford, taken a tenvelling scholarship in Ger- many, and stopped off for a few tongue-twisting chores in Man- chester, Colombo, Tokyo, and points west.
really. Languages? Nothing,
Dutch. Just English, French, German, odd bits of Italian and Spanish, and a few stray dialects. Yes, he had been a war-ikne KAP squadron-leader, and, yes, It was true 'ho had headed teams of official advisers on the linguistic problems of Ceylon. Singapore, and Japan.
Challenging this claim, called Mr Pilleyalar in English whereupon he belied down into the basement ringk bar, mounted a stool, and de muntled silence of the assembled babel.
"What Janguages are being spoken in this room?" he asked.
"Portuguese!" replied a nifty blonde number with a pony-tali,
"Polish!" sold a Norwegian.
"Danish!"
"Yiddishi"
"Goulash!"
This last, however, turned out to be Ted, dishing up everything front shishkebab to Lancashire hot-pot behind the counter.
from
occhhee cehom casual ference to the fact that cows eat autumn hay.
identifled) were agreeing that les brillants sont les meilleurs amis de la femme,
Mr Pigy said he hoped we had been interested, and wil je 'n borreltje. hebben.
Downstairs, the Chinese were setting up a conversation circle, Grranging the Indians "vere
classes for Septtists country And, belleve me, it was timna dances, a bearded West African for a snifter, Dutch or other
his part in wise. was rehearsing Trelawney of the Wells, the English were recruiting nem- bery for a Spanish Flamenco
two and group, (shape sharp but race
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Jalk and I toured the joint— I mean the cercle, Upstairs, in No, he was not prepared to 'Room 24, Drajinga Kon talk about his other duties - Yugoslavia, Allan Beak forn the ones that had brought him Gloucestershire and helt o in contact with Churchill, Mac- dozen other all-corte were 19 millan, Ribbentrop. Masaryk mopping up Russian like billy-ó- and Motatov,
and tossing odd blis of priceless
information to the . passing
He would much rather Jak and stranger
I heard about the Linguinis"
Club, which had around 3,609 Next me I go to Moscow I'll active members, and where knock 'em cold with kapoba Let
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