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From: tom@uwai.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang
Subject: Re: non-English Articles
Message-ID: <158@uwai.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-Nov-84 10:25:46 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 13 10:25:46 1984
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> In article <154@uwai.UUCP> tom@uwai.UUCP suggests:
> > I therefore propose the creation of a new group, net.flang, with subgroups
> > such as net.flang.spanish, net.flang.french, net.flang.russian,  [etc etc]
> ...
> > 	What do you call a man who speaks one language:
> > 		American.
> 
> And what do you call someone on an international network who calls Spanish,
> French, Russian (etc) foreign languages?

Ok, I'm embarassed.  I guess my only plea is that while this *is* an inter-
national network, the primary language used on it is English, thus making
others ``foreign'' to it.  Call it net.nlang.french if net.flang.french is
offensive.  I really *try* to be more sensitive to this than the
"average fellow American", even to the point of avoiding reserving
the word "American" to US citizens, since this tends to enfuriate the
Argentines and Chileans I know.  Having lived in Europe for an extended
length of time, I *am* aware that Europeans often take offense, and rightly 
so, to having their tongue referred to as foreign.  

In summary, forgive the slip of the ``tongue''.

tom
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Tom Christiansen
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Systems Lab 
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