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- From: ts9@irz207.inf.tu-dresden.de (Till Salzer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Profibuch (was Julian Reschke involved...)
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 15:37:34 GMT
- Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU of Dresden, Germany
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- Hi!
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- In article <1k0ci4EINN4eg@uni-erlangen.de>, lsmichae@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael) 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.
- |>Isn't that a *big* ignorant? Just imagine, you want to spend 50 bucks for a
- |>book in e.g. chinese or russian, can't speak the language and say that's
- |>cheap? You even would by a even more expensive dictionary and a grammar
- |>book to learn the language from an instant?
- |>
- |>Well, if you would do so, that's your problem, but it won't help our
- |>english speaking friends.
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- Maybe you know someone who will translate the german Profibuch into english.
- Maybe you will find someone who will launch the english book.
-
- Solange Du aber niemanden findest, musst Du es auf deutsch lesen. Duerfte fuer
- Dich ja kein grosses Problem sein.
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- No doubt it were silly to write an english book for german readers. Most people
- like to read books in their own language. Aren't you? Maybe it's SYBEX's opinion
- that there are not enought readers for an english Profibuch. If this is wrong -
- tell SYBEX.
-
- |>English is established as the international language for scientific and
- |>computer science books, that's because english is a language that is
- |>spoken world wide. And that's why computer books are usually written in
- |>english.
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- Yes, english is established as ..., an english is spoken worldwide. But if I go
- to China and can't read their books, it would be *MY* problem. Even if it is a
- book about computer science.
-
- Wie dem auch sei - lesen bildet.
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- ketchup
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