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- From: boc4@woodlawn.uchicago.edu (roue)
- Subject: Re: I never ATE PC's :O)
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 20:47:18 GMT
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- In article <4kghd0$rkm@kdcol.kdcol.com>,
- Kerry Hales <maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com> wrote:
- >
- >David Coombes (u3f38@teach.cs.keele.ac.uk) wrote:
- >: VASCO ALEXANDRE DA SILVA COSTA (l42786@alfa.ist.utl.pt) wrote:
- >
- >: ~ BY THE WAY I AM PORTUGUESE YOU KNOW!
- >: ~ THERE ARE 500 MILLION PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SPEAKING PERSONS IN THE WORLD.
- >: ~ IT'S THE WORLD'S 3rd MOST SPEAKEN LANGUAGE...
- >
- >: Are you sure? I know Spanish is widely spoken, but Portugese is AFAIK a
- >: different language, with similarities to Spanish. I do not know the correct
- >: order, but the top 4 languages spoken are
- >
- >: English
- >: Mandarin Chinese
- >: French
- >: Spanish
- >
- >: ...unless someone can tell me different.
- >
- >: --
- >I hate to break the news to this guy, but portuguses is not the third most
- >spoken language.
- >
- >Chinese is first, but if you count all the dialects, it is probably 4th.
- >
- >English is second, Spanish is third, French is fourth.
- >
- >Source: U.S. news and world reports.
- >
- >
- >--
- >==========================================================================
- >maverick@kdcol.kdcol.com
- >http://www.kdcol.com/~maverick/
- >ftp> ftp.kdcol.com anonymous--- email passwd
- >Ftp directory /users/m/maverick
- >Amiga Links and Links to Spain.
- >==========================================================================
- >
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-
- perhaps by "third most spoken language" our friend is referring not
- to the number of people who speak portugese, but the volume of babble
- which pours fourth... in which case, by his own example, he may be right.
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