THANK YOU // from Vienna

Dear Dorico Team,

I’ve been using Dorico for over two years now, and I must say I’m truly impressed. I just want to take a moment to say thank you – especially for the quick and constructive responses here in the forum. I greatly appreciate all of your hard work.

I wish you all a wonderful holiday season and a happy New Year.

Warm regards from Vienna, Austria

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Ich wünsche Ihnen ein sehr frohes Weihnachtsfest in der Stadt von Mozart und Sisi. :slightly_smiling_face:

Und möge die Macht mit Ihnen sein ! :austria:

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… but they are already dead since few years, i hope you know that :wink:

No, no. When I came to Vienna, they were everywhere : in sweets, on schnapps labels, on mugs and T-shirts !

And… confidence : it was under the statue of Mozart in the gardens near the Hoffburg that ask for a wedding proposal to the woman who has been with me for exactly 38 years now !

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no no!
Her name is Sissi :grinning:

Ah yes ! I have forgotten an « S ». Dass sie mir vergibt !

Obiwan, you must be very much at home with a language, that pads exclamation marks with an extra (half) space!
Parlez-vous Français ?

En effet, je suis français. :slightly_smiling_face:
But I’ve been studying German since I was very young and I love this language. Tell me if my turn of phrase was incorrect, because my French origins sometimes show through in my German… :thinking:

Je suis allemand / I am German, but even our daughter corrects my grammar. They are taking care of their language, the younger generation, it seems.

Formidable !
But, do you know, if it were the same in France, I’d be happy, because our beautiful language of Molière is suffering a lot. :cold_sweat:

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This is interesting off topic :wink:
When we learnt English at school, our teachers aim was to get us speak like at the Royal Court in London, that’s what she told us.
Later the BBC English became a guideline for good English, but this has totally changed.
Now in German schools they can’t decide whether to teach a simplified “universal” English - poor teachers and poor pupils…
Be careful correcting your teacher, when even they can’t pronounce words like Greenwich f.e. :mage:
And let’s not talk about grammar, the tenses

I agree with @ObiwanKenobi. It seems nobody below 40 has any motivation to care for our language, it’s depressing. I’m glad it’s different in Germany.

Marc, there are regional differences of course, but all in all I am surprised how the younger folks really go for it. Reading seems to be a good trigger, too.

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