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- From: mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.132545.2241@inftec.be>
- Keywords: Han Kanji Katakana Hirugana ISO10646 Unicode Codepages
- Organization: Information Technologies, Wemmel, Belgium.
- References: <mathias.724467456@sune.stacken.kth.se> <id.M2XV.VTA@ferranti.com> <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 13:25:45 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.043033.14254@midway.uchicago.edu> goer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >One of the big criticism leveled at US Engineers is that they are either
- >too dumb or lazy to build into their software support for non-Western
- I think a good programmer is lazy by definition :-)
- >
- >Incidentally, although it's true that US Engineers often have really
- >terrible language skills, this is due more to geographical isolation
- >than to organic stupidity. There's just no need for multilingualism
- >here in the states, the way there is in Europe, esp. in the low coun-
- >tries and Scandinavia.
- I'm from the low countries and hate those stupid signs on top of those
- letters, if you need to remember these for different languages it's
- a pain in the ass, but wait until you see some Vietnamese they are
- the champions I think.
- I think we ( the Belgians ) are champions too, we have 3 official
- languages for 10M people.
- I don't think it's a matter of isolation but size, the language
- skills of my French and German neighbors are IMHO not that impressive
- too.
-
- mike.
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