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- From: David Marshall <D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AMIGA Developer conference @ CeBIT 96
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 17:57:14 +0000
- Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- Peter Elzner wrote:
- > I get the impression about almost every english speaking nation :-)
- > They always think that english is the most spoken language in the world.
- > Well, it isn't (and it isn't german either of course)
-
- Well, it isn't the most common first language (that's Mandarin of
- course) but it is the language spoken and understood by most people I'm
- afraid.
-
- Dave
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- "The tangled web of worries around speech shows how little
- people know about it" - Professor Jean Aitchison
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