Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:06:15 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru> 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: <3CF1DAE7.97CA9559@mindspring.com> 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> <20020527091651.A39265@regency.nsu.ru>
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Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > 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. I move letters around, apparently at random. ;^). The press spells it "Kazakhstan". We should just call it "that country with the migratory 'h'"... 8-p. > > 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 I was thinking of the tanks and the long stand-off at the government offices a while back as a "flare up". Unless you were thinking about the "mutant spiders"? The others, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan are generally less well known in the U.S. (though Uzbekistan has gotten some U.S. press lately for allowing U.S. troops to be based there for launch into Afghanistan). I have a good friend who's from there. Want to hear something cute? All of the "-stan" republics which are former Soviet satellites have a literacy rate at least 1% better than that of the U.S.. The other "-stan"'s are much worse: Pakistan is ~43%, and Afghanistan is ~32%. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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