From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 8 11:35:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (bachue.usc.unal.edu.co [168.176.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40DAC37BB77 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 11:34:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from asme.org ([216.226.229.175]) by bachue.usc.unal.edu.co (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA2377 for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 13:33:52 -0400 Message-ID: <38EF57A4.EAD77FE@asme.org> Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 11:00:36 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East References: <20000404152346.01398@techunix.technion.ac.il> <8cgj1a$313f$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <38EE4C97.B9B83C7A@asme.org> <20000407143054.A9684@sofia.csl.sri.com> <3.0.6.32.20000407230743.00902b90@mail85.pair.com> <38EEB1C8.C6E74E87@asme.org> <004b01bfa120$683fcba0$62a293cb@timberwolf> <38EED20D.CFD7FBE@mail.ptd.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org OK, final round: "French is for speaking to diplomats, Spanish is for speaking to God, Italian is for speaking about love and German is for speaking to animals." I am not going to justify Charles Vth's claims, they were probably related to the politics of the time, but my neighbors seem to believe their dobberman understands German better than any other language. Nowadays, most people associate French with love, Italian with food, Spanish with poverty, and German with evil plots ...too much marketing I guess. Also the german language doesn't seem as violent as the US movies would make believe. I don't speak German or French, but Italian is a language designed for poetry and art. English is probably the easiest language to learn, and if you know spanish you will understand most from the "romantic tongues" . Of course all these languages are a minority (in volume) compared to the chinese dialects. cheers, Pedro. "Thomas M. Sommers" wrote: > ... > > I don't know Italian, either, but I think Chuck was saying that you use > French to speak to diplomats, Spanish to speak to God, and German to > speak to animals. He said it, not me. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message