Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!trwrba!cepu!ucla-cs!trav From: trav@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Re: Other languages on the net Message-ID: <3400@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Thu, 24-Jan-85 19:43:19 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.3400 Posted: Thu Jan 24 19:43:19 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Jan-85 05:27:32 EST References: <37@osu-eddie.UUCP> <319@scc.UUCP> <266@calmasd.UUCP> <276@terak.UUCP> Reply-To: trav@ucla-cs.UUCP (Pascal Traverse) Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 35 Summary: In article <276@terak.UUCP> doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee) writes: >> I'm curious as to why the only language on usenet is English. Doesn't this >By the way, English *is* the official language of aviation. Even the >Doug Pardee -- Terak Corp. -- !{hao,ihnp4,decvax}!noao!terak!doug Certes, mais dans le monde des communications, le monde de USEnet, l'on parle du CCITT (Comite Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique) et non du TTICC*. Neanmoins, je dois reconnaitre que Doug Pardee est dans le vrai en cela que l'ASCII n'est pas pratique pour utiliser des accents et autres cedilles, et qu'a mon grand regret il y a plus de personnes lisant l'anglais que le francais sur ce reseau, ainsi que dans le monde de l'informatique. Tentatively, an approximate translation: Indeed, but in the world of communications, the world of USEnet, one talks more about CCITT (a French achronism, see above) than about TTICC*. Nevertheless, I must agree with Doug Pardee and say that ASCII is difficult to use with some of the French letters (accents,...), and that, unfortunately on my point of view, there are more people able to read English on this net and in the computer world, than able to read French. * Francais/French Anglais/English ONU UNO OTAN NATO CCITT -?-> TTICC -- Pascal Traverse UCLA Computer Science Department 3732 Boelter Hall // Los Angeles, CA 90024 // (213) 825-4885 ARPA: trav@UCLA-LOCUS.ARPA UUCP: ...!{cepu,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!trav