Vacation in Scotland

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My brother-in-law was a partner in a U.S. based world-wide firm whose clients were only U.S. companies. He somewhat accidentally gained several prominent European clients, and spent significant time there. Some years back, one of my brother-in-law's clients, an Atlanta developer, asked to tag along with him on vacation in Europe. Neither of them had a second language. My sister, more than fluent in French and quite capable in German, Dutch, and Italian learned entertaining the wives of clients, smoothly negotiated throughout the continent. On their return to Heathrow homeward bound, the client was first to encounter the Cockney customs officer. Clueless, he turned to my sister, who told him the questions and requests. She was muchly amused to realize halfway through that she was translating English into English.