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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.170841.7271@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 17:08:41 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec19.132545.2241@inftec.be> mike@inftec.be (Mike Aerts) writes:
- >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
- ..
- >I think we ( the Belgians ) are champions too, we have 3 official
- >languages for 10M people.
- ...
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- Here in Canada, we win a different contest. 2 official languages, isolated by
- 10,000 kilometers. I spent 3 years learning french, but out here on the
- west coast, French speaking individuals are about as common as lilies on the moon.
- Needless to say, I am a little rusty. Just as well, given the warm reception
- that I saw given to some foriegn linguists on the net recently :-).
-
- Peter
- pmacdona@sanjuan.uvic.ca
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