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- From: jonal@dhhalden.no (JON ARVID LOVSTAD)
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- Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
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- Date: 24 Jan 93 15:59:05 GMT
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- In article <1js5nbINNfes@rs2.hrz.th-darmstadt.de> wallmann@backus.pu.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Natuerlich!) writes:
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- >For the price of the Profibuch (80.-DM ~ $50 per 1200+ pages) you should
- >be still 'liquid' (in money terms) enough to also buy a German dictionary.
- >This way you'll learn some German, which will be for your future
- >career probably even more profitable than knowing the VDI calls. (har)
- >Since most of the stuff you can guess, (like what's Malloc gonna do ??) and
- >the jargon draws quite a lot from English, this I think oughta be feasible.
- >
- >(I had to read english manuals from the tenderest age, there was nothing
- >else available (sob))
- >
- >Nat!
- >--
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- Sure, a German dictionary might do it for many of those out there. Still,
- there is a motivation problem. A lot of people out there just don't want to
- go and pick up a dictionary to read a book.
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- What about if some of us who can I/O both German and English volunteered to
- translate a chapter each...??
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- Nomad
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