From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 29 1:37: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from energyhq.homeip.net (213-97-200-73.uc.nombres.ttd.es [213.97.200.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 503EF37B404 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 01:37:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: by energyhq.homeip.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A0E3C3FC2D; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:36:54 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:36:54 +0200 From: Miguel Mendez To: Brad Knowles Cc: Martin Karlsson , Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <20020529103654.A51106@energyhq.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Brad Knowles , Martin Karlsson , Terry Lambert , chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020523061551.GA237@lpt.ens.fr> <20020523155541.H230@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020523063222.GA470@lpt.ens.fr> <20020525075741.GC630@foo31-146.visit.se> <20020525175337.F84264@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20020526094106.GA345@foo31-146.visit.se> <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com> <20020527200708.GB441@foo31-146.visit.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:49:00PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 02:49:00PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: Hi, > For those people who have any thoughts whatsoever about Canadians=20 > or Mexicans, yes. Supposedly, all Candians say "eh" (pronounced=20 > "aay") a lot, and all Mexicans supposedly wear sombreros and sleep=20 > outside on the porch of their house with their knees tucked to their=20 > chest, especially during the hours of 12:00 Noon and 3:00 PM. LOL, that's a common myth, yes. I actually find it funny :) > I would agree. I believe that the people in the Basque region of=20 > Spain would also agree. Well, I was born in the Basque region (San Sebastian, if you want to know), and, guess what, almost no one gives a fsck about basque. Until very recently there weren't even written documents in that language, so they had to come up with a way to write it. The Basque region also didn't have a flag, so they took some acid overdose and copied the brittish one :-) Unfortunately, there's still a very big problem with 'nationalism', which is mainly the reason why the basque language was started to be taught again in schools. IMHO, basque is as useful as trying to write Unix in COBOL, but some people see it as the basque identity or something. > A person I was talking to here at SANE 2002 mentioned that if a=20 > Flemish speaking person and a Dutch speaking person went into a=20 > restaurant or bar operated by a French speaking person, it would not=20 > be unusual at all for the person speaking Dutch to be understood=20 > perfectly well, while the person speaking Flemish gets nowhere -- the=20 > proprietor is just being an asshole. That seems to happen everywhere, I'm afraid. One summer I and some friends went to Valencia, where they speak a catalonian-esque language. No matter how loud I said it every time, the girl from a local pizzeria insisted in speaking valencian to me all the time. I concluded she was either trolling me or simply too stupid :) At least she looked good :) Cheers, --=20 Miguel Mendez - flynn@energyhq.homeip.net GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE89JMmnLctrNyFFPERAuDmAJ0erG2BN+C63u4ugX1Pmg+0yXuiUQCgyjYH S+EZrL0Nxw+ELIamHZ5/KI0= =xMxq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message