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- From: jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
- Message-ID: <8701@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 22:35:33 GMT
- References: <memo.883170@cix.compulink.co.uk>
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- apelled@cix.compulink.co.uk (Adam Pelled) writes:
-
- > (Julian F. Reschke) writes:
- >> (William Rosenkranz) writes:
- >>> (Sander Stoks) writes:
- >>>> Boy, am I looking forward to the Falcon Profibuch!
- >>>
- >>> will this be available in english?
- >>
- >> Probably not, because currently there are not enough possible
- >> customers to justify the translation costs (more than 1500 pages
- >> of technical text -> expensive!).
- >>
- > i'm not so sure. There are a lot of English speaking countries; Britain
- > and the States. i would think that there would be sufficient demand to make
- > it worth somebodies while.
-
- Right! Not to mention all countries who's inhabitants don't speak German
- but *do* speak (or at least can read) English.
-
- And besides, doesn't computer jargon write much easier in English in the
- first place! It took me some context switching to figure out that the
- German word "speigern" means "to store in memory" although that's
- not the fault of the German language but more of my limited knowledge of
- the language :).
-
- Jan van der Steen (anyway a profibuch owner)
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