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- From: mariusf@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Marius Farkas)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.romanian
- Subject: Re: Romanian humor
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.205018.1779@cs.uoregon.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:50:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.163649.8493@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> <1992Nov20.205230.7960@cs.uoregon.edu> <1992Nov23.093458.18162@kth.se>
- Sender: mariusf@cs.uoregon.edu (Marius Farkas)
- Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.
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- In article <1992Nov23.093458.18162@kth.se> mihai@nada.kth.se (Mihai Dorobantu) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov20.205230.7960@cs.uoregon.edu>, mariusf@sisters.cs.uoregon.edu (Marius Farkas) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Nov18.163649.8493@wisipc.weizmann.ac.il> jhsegal@wiscon.weizmann.ac.il (Livian) writes:
- >|> >[.....]
- >|> >P.S.:This is not prejudice.I lived there.
-
- >|> I hope that my understanding of your PS is correct, i.e. you only have
- >|> lived in Romania for a while and are not of Romanian descent... ****************************
- >|> [...]
-
- >Interesting... I wonder how Marius Farkas deduces (from the PS) that Livian is
- >*not of Romanian descent*. And for that matter, who cares about someone's
- >descent?
- > [...]
- >Mihai Dorobantu
- >
-
- My oh mine! Only for the record, I will digress on this... As other people
- recognized it, (I got approving mail in confirmation) I WILLINGLY made the
- ^^^^^^^^^
- assumption that Livian is not of Romanian descent! That is because I believe
- that Romanians, (I mean those who NOT only used to live in Romania!) are NOT
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- describing their nationality as the worst possible on earth! Romania's
- immage in the international community is bleak enough. Nobody can demand of
- the few of us fortunate enough to live in better places to do something about
- improving that immage... But at least we shouldn't worsten it with
- hypocritical accusations!
-
- Cheer up!
- Marius Farkas
-