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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d
Subject: Re: Foreign languge entries
Message-ID: <673@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Dec-83 19:21:48 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.673
Posted: Tue Dec 20 19:21:48 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Dec-83 00:34:39 EST
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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The following complaint was revolting:

	PLEASE!  For the sake of us who have only studied Asian languages,
	or those who have only studied mid-eastern languages, or those that
	have only studied english, -------------
	
		IF YOU MUST POST SOMETHING IN A FOREIGN TONGUE, PLEASE POST THE	
		TRANSLATION WITH IT!
	
	(thanx!)
	
		(To not do so is even ruder than rotating something other
		 than 13.)

Foreign to whom?  Should people in the Netherlands post jokes only in Dutch?
French only in French?  German?  Danish?  Norwegian?  Yankee? (sorry, couldn't
resist).  The joke you were objecting too was indeed funnier in French than
in translation.  I don't read German, but I wouldn't object to jokes in German,
or any other language for that matter.  There are (many) people out there
who would understand it: just because I wouldn't is no reason to object to it.

English is not the only language in the world or on this network.
There's far too much American parochialism on USENET already without
trying to impose a single language on everybody.
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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