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Subject: Re: ENGLISH/LINGUA FRANCA - GLOBAL E-MAIL COMMUNICATIONS
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Date: 21 Mar 90 13:52:52 GMT
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    We have a defacto standard today -- its english, and you are going to have
    to work *VERY* hard to change that. I can't see the standard changing witho
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    a very good reason.

Much as French was the de facto standard for global communication 100-200 years
ago.

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    Kevin 'fractal' Purcell ...................... kpurcell @ liverpool.ac.uk
         Surface Science Centre, Liverpool University, Liverpool L69 3BX

                   "My karma just reversed over your dogma"

					- reg