Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 08:45:05 -0400 (EDT) From: pgreen <polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205280844140.83088-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> In-Reply-To: <3CF2FC8F.317C0AE2@mindspring.com>
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On Mon, 27 May 2002, Terry Lambert wrote: > pgreen wrote: > > East Timor is the newest, and greatest, country in the world. > > > No power, no water, and 85% of all buildings, public and private, burnt down > by departing Indonesian troops in 1999. Most teaching positions filled by > agenda swinging missionaries. Large aggressive neighbor with a fresh chip > on its shoulder, and every reason to pull a "Monroe" to take attention off > the problems at home. Indonesia actively blocking medical supplies, and > 50-100 people dying daily from curable diseases (according to "unbiased" > Noam Chomsky). Only 50% literacy for men and 34% for women. > > Current issues include: implementing IMF-mandated reforms of the banking > sector, effecting a transition to a popularly elected government after > four decades of authoritarianism, addressing charges of cronyism and > corruption, holding the military accountable for human rights violations > (source: CIA). > > Dropping of Indonesian (spoken by 63%) as the official language, and > adopting _both_ Portuguese (spoken by 5%) and Tetum (spoken by 91%, the > most populous of the 15 indiginous spoken languages). Tetum needing > both grammatical and vocabulary developement before it's expressive > enough to be a national language (source: International Herlad Tribune); > most likely this will come in the form of imports from Portuguese. > > Over 20% unemployment. > > Am I forgetting anything? > > Maybe Sun Microsystems will send them something, given that they > named a computer language after Indonesia's largest island... I guess > as a new nation, they could always sell domain names in their country > suffix... > > Just what we need... more technocratic "one true plan" nation building > which has been so successful everywhere else it's been tried. > > -- Terry > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > You're forgetting at least one thing: they say "Viva!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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