From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 29 16:51:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFAF037B405 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 16:51:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id CF3728148E; Thu, 30 May 2002 09:21:06 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 09:21:06 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey 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: <20020530092106.D82424@wantadilla.lemis.com> 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 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 On Tuesday, 28 May 2002 at 14:49:00 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 10:07 PM +0200 2002/05/27, Martin Karlsson wrote: >> Of course I think that if one migrates to a new country, priority >> one is to learn the language of that country, > > As a foreigner living in Belgium, I would agree. However, there > is something out-of-whack when a significant portion of the > population living in that country speaks a language which is not > officially recognized (e.g., English) and there is an officially > recognized linguistic minority that is even smaller than this > unrecognized minority (e.g., German). JOOI, if you leave Bruxelles and go out into the countryside, what's the situation there? I can't recall a large amount of English being spoken outside Brussel, and you've got to admit that that city is particularly unusual. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message