I know I had promised myself not to do it again, but I'm only human, and I could not resist it.
I must confess that, this month, I did it. I watched Jean-Claude Trichet's press conference. As expected, the cassette was the exact same that I had heard on so many occasions since the beginning of the crisis: “inflation expectations are firmly anchored”, blah, blah, blah!
Weird, though. All this time, I had been finding it difficult to place his accent, and I couldn't. It sounded neither Greek, nor Spanish, nor Irish. This time, it dawned on me. I was hearing distinct nuances of German.
I may, of course, be wrong, but then I'm no specialist in linguistics.
