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From: trifid@agora.rain.com (Roadster Racewerks)
Newsgroups: comp.society.development
Subject: Re: Who is on the net?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.214731.25081@agora.rain.com>
Date: 17 Jun 91 21:47:31 GMT
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Organization: Open Communications Forum
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If you read soc.culture.soviet you may discover that although Cyrillic fonts
and programs are available, they are such a pain to use that everything is
either in English or written phonetically. The Spanish groups are mostly in
Spanish, and soc.culture.celtic alternaes a good deal, but is predominantly
in English.

English is actually a good choice as an international languAGE for more reason
than that the US is big and powerful and there was once a British Empire. As it
evolved from several different languages, it dropped a lot of complications,
(unfortunatel y it also developed terrible spelling) sand picked up many words
no "respectable" language would have assimilated. It's a sort of trash-heap made
of lots of bits. This makes it very flexible. It can pick up stuff and take it in
with little distortion and with no "official" committee to rule on how to insert
it into the syntax. Quick and dirty, as the said...

Suze Hammond
trifid@agora.rain.com

ps
Sorry about the typos. I'm on another machine and there's a mismatch with some
commands...unfortunately including "delete"!