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- From: leo@ph.tn.tudelft.nl (Leo Breebaart)
- Subject: Re: lots o' questions&annotations for Mort
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 10:12:19 GMT
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- nad@cl.cam.ac.uk (Neil Dodgson) writes:
-
- > You are assuming here that everyone who reads Terry's work can speak
- > some French --- a Euro-centric assumption.
-
- You're probably right about occasional (I hope it's just occasional!)
- Euro-centrism creeping into my world view -- it's where I live after
- all.
-
- To my 'defense' I should say that I was not exactly thinking "surely
- everybody knows at least this much French" but rather "surely everybody
- knows what 'cafe au lait' is". Just like you don't have to know Spanish
- to know what 'Ole' is. Heck, I don't speak any French *myself*...
-
- Your point still applies, of course.
- --
- Leo Breebaart (leo @ ph.tn.tudelft.nl)
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