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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Error Code List
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.041250.17649@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <105945@bu.edu> <1993Jan3.231327.2564@midway.uchicago.edu> <105987@bu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:12:50 GMT
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- In article <105987@bu.edu> heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser) writes:
- >>And here's another possibility: they've got just enough room for a
- >>couple short strings. Why not pick the five top world languages, say,
- >>and use those? Perhaps we'll insult the Croatians and the Lithuanians
- >>in the process, but it might be an improvement.
- >Well, I assume you're being facitious :-)
-
- Only partly. Up until the last sentence I was serious.
-
- >I (apparently incorrectly) assumed that ENGLISH was basically a standard
- >at least at the *OS* level. I figured it was similar to the standard
- >established for Air Traffic Control, where it is nearly universally
- >agreed (so I'm told) that English is the official language.
-
- Far from it. You'd be a fish out of water operating many computers in
- the Far East.
-
- In most programming, however, the lingua franca seems to be English.
-
- >BTW, the Croatian girl in my AI class this past semester spoke
- >very good English :-) :-)
-
- I'm afraid we can't ask the same of every non-English reading OS/2
- user.
-
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