🚀 go-pugleaf

In <8701@charon.cwi.nl> jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) writes:

>
>Right! Not to mention all countries who's inhabitants don't speak German
>but *do* speak (or at least can read) English.
>
>And besides, doesn't computer jargon write much easier in English in the
>first place! It took me some context switching to figure out that the
>German word "speigern" means "to store in memory" although that's
>not the fault of the German language but more of my limited knowledge of
>the language :).
>
>Jan van der Steen (anyway a profibuch owner)

I'm sure you're copy of the profibuch is in Dutch!  Which I find striking
considering the current discussion.  I mean THAT wasn't necessary AT ALL!
But it seemed that there was enough of a market to do that.  For your
information, Holland has 15 million inhabitants, and hardly any other people
on the world (OK, another 30 million?) read Dutch.



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