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- From: avgroeni@cs.ruu.nl (Annius Groenink)
- Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.101846.10771@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:18:46 GMT
- References: <memo.883170@cix.compulink.co.uk> <8701@charon.cwi.nl>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- In <8701@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:
-
- >
- >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)
-
- I'm sure you're copy of the profibuch is in Dutch! Which I find striking
- considering the current discussion. I mean THAT wasn't necessary AT ALL!
- But it seemed that there was enough of a market to do that. For your
- information, Holland has 15 million inhabitants, and hardly any other people
- on the world (OK, another 30 million?) read Dutch.
-
-
-
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