Re: Who is on the net?

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1 total messages Started by Gordon Joly Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:02

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Author: Gordon Joly
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 10:02

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Suze Hammond (mis-types and:-) writes
> 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. 

Indeed. My entirte point. Electronic colonialism!!! Not what we really
want.

> 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.

Spelling? Whay's wrong with GHOTI? (That's a phonetically equivalent
FISH to you:-)

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

Gordon 

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