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Date:      Sun, 9 Apr 2000 02:20:42 +0200
From:      Brad Knowles <blk@skynet.be>
To:        Anatoly Vorobey <mellon@pobox.com>, "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: BSDCon East
Message-ID:  <v04220800b5157cd42bd6@[195.238.22.221]>
In-Reply-To: <20000408194048.A55372@sasami.jurai.net>
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At 7:40 PM -0400 2000/4/8, Anatoly Vorobey wrote:

>  I've always wondered: do people actually *do* that?

	Yup.  I've personally encountered it here in Belgium.

>                                                       I can't quite
>  understand why someone would be so obnoxious. And which nations are more
>  susceptible to that behavior?

	My personal experience is that French speakers tend to be the 
worst about this.

	I can only figure out that it's that whole "Well, we have 
L'Academie Française, what the hell right do you have to even think 
in another language?!?"

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