Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Path: utzoo!utdoe!david
From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: password encoding (minix)
Message-ID: <1991Jun12.220714.27402@doe.utoronto.ca>
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project - U of Toronto
References: <56115@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 22:07:14 GMT

In article <56115@nigel.ee.udel.edu> v882087@si.hhs.nl writes:

>Joerg, ein versuch. Wollen sie bitte nicht im Deutsch antworten. Jedemfals
>nicht in die international grupe.
>
>(Ich bitte pardon fuer mein slechtes Deutsch aber ich habs lezte drie oder
>vier jahr nicht mehr gesprochen).
>
>Danke schoen.

A lot of the stuff on my Minix system comes from programmers with
German addresses, and I have no objection to their posting in their
own language, as long as they don't mind my posting in English (I
could post in German, but I like the language too much to insult it
with my bad grammar). I think that German, French and English, at very
least, have good claims for being international languages in the
Western world and, thus, on the Usenet (I should probably add
Spanish), and I won't even get into the Asian languages. What do the
net gods have to say about this one? Is it to be eine Sprache? (Sounds
a bit like "ein Volk" to me).


David



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