Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!texsun!newstop!sun!pepper!cmcmanis From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: German on the net. Message-ID: <127957@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 16 Nov 89 01:49:51 GMT References: <89Nov9.231746est.57350@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> <24029@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 18 In article <24029@cup.portal.com> (dave l smythe) writes: >Because USENET is a world-wide network, it only makes sense to use >the international standard language: English. ... That's what I like about Usenet, you can make a fool of yourself in front of millions of people and never know they are amused much less rolling in the aisles. Sorry Dave if you meant to put a smiley face on your post and forgot it. You should travel to France sometime and get the language bigotry issue turned around (those french people seem to believe that _French_ is the international standard language you see ...). So why do you believe English is the international standard language? Why isn't it Japanese? Or French, or German for that matter? --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"