Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:51 +0700 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020527091651.A39265@regency.nsu.ru> In-Reply-To: <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700 References: <20020522050350.GA266@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523124604.Z45715@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <p0511170eb9127dabc846@[10.0.1.8]> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <20020525175337.F84264@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020526094106.GA345@foo31-146.visit.se> <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com>
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Second counter-example: many of the former Russian republics have > official languages, the best overall description of which is really > "anything but Russian". Kazhakstan is probably the best known to Actually, "Khazakstan" is more correct. > people in the U.S. (and most likely that's as much because of the > fact that it ends in "stan" like "Afghanistan", as for the brush-fire > conflict that flares up periodically between it and Russia). Well, I'd say that "flares up periodically" seems a bit harder-said than it actually should, though Khazakstan is far not the only "stan"-suffixed republics of former USSR. It's not only the ending that makes it "the best known to people in the U.S." ;-P ./danfe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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