From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 21 05:52:30 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA27439 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:52:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA27358 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 05:52:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id OAA23959 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:50:40 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id OAA22862 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:50:39 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id OAA13522 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:29:55 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603211329.OAA13522@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: internationalization To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 14:29:54 +0100 (MET) In-Reply-To: <9603210930.AA22938@wavehh.hanse.de> from "Martin Cracauer" at Mar 21, 96 10:30:48 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Martin Cracauer wrote: > I think the average Japan and Russia user is in a more diffucult > situation, because a) English is teached to every school kid in > germany (but not in the former DDR up to 19989) and b) German is quite > similar to english. Minor nit: about 60 ... 70 % of all school kids in GDR did also learn English, in addition to Russian. Or whaddaya think where i've learnt it? ;) (...as well as my last pieces of Russian that i haven't already forgotten again.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)