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From: alan@pdn.UUCP (Alan Lovejoy)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat,sci.lang
Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 14:08:52 EDT
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In article <717@maccs.UUCP> gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) writes:
>"Sumasshedshii vsekh stran, soyedinyaites'"        Gordan Palameta

Shouldn't that be: Sumashedshchiji fsjekh stran, soyedjinjaitjesj 
((Let) loonies (out-of-mind-goners) (of) all countries unite (make
themselves (as) one))?  First of all, they already have.  Secondly,
ASCII is admittedly far underpowered to even be considered as a
standard for all languages world-wide, even if they all could socio-
politically agree to use the "same" alphabet.  Thirdly, the
Soviets already have RuSCII (Russian Standard Code For Information
Interchange).  And lastly, it's a lot easier to write "English" in
Cyrillic than it is to write "Russian" in Anglographia (excuse me for
coining a new term).

--Alan "Pjervyj bljin komom" Lovejoy