On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:05:13PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
Reminds me of a self-deprecating joke I heard in Canada once. Canada
could have been good. It could have had British culture, French
cuisine and American technology. Instead, it got American culture,
British cuisine and French
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 05:27:02AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
I have heard that joke too. There is a similarity between the Russian
technology and the French technology. The west was surprised when the
Russians put the sputnik in the skies. When taken care of can be
amazingly powerful and
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:40:55AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
those books, I didn't see any superiority between any culture in terms
of maths, or types of maths.
Mathematics is one in the sense that it describes the same
reality. The approach to it may be different. No claim of
superiority. Only
On February 20, 2004 02:05, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I swear to Christ, when I was in France, I said to myself: PLEASE
GOD PLEASE get me back to my land of 500 channels of pablum, my
Strop Alexander wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Bitte in Englisch schreiben, da ich kein Franzoesisch kann. ;-))
Translation: Please write in English, because i can't read any french.
Maybe we can help you then.
Alex
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Troy Truchon wrote:
Heck america isn't even english only, despite what many claim. Sadly I never
learned quebecois as my father never picked it up.
It never was. Back in the 1700s the most common language was German.
Today the official languages of
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 23:05:13 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I swear to Christ, when I was in France, I said to myself: PLEASE GOD
PLEASE get me back to my land of 500 channels of pablum,
Incoming from Marty Landman:
At 02:37 PM 2/18/2004, s. keeling wrote:
Of course, there's a lot of people from where I'm from who would dispute
the suggestion that English is spoken anywhere in the US.
Heh. Just shows how jealous they all are of what we've managed to do with
it since
At 12:39 PM 2/19/2004, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Marty Landman:
Heh. Just shows how jealous they all are of what we've managed to do with
it since taking it over 200+ years ago. :)
As in KMart, Kwikee-Mart, Walmart, KTel, garnished [sic] wages, and
PATRIOT Act? :-P Doh!
Nice of you not
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:02:53PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Nice of you not to mention the {W} really embarrassing stuff. :)
That's OK. It's 2004. The people will vote their own regime change
soon enough. I fear W may be a petty tyrant and
At 02:14 PM 2/19/2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
The people will vote their own regime change soon enough.
From your mouth to God's ear, Paul.
I fear W may be a petty tyrant and refuse to step down, however.
Hah, funny. Nice plot idea for Arnold Schwarzenegger's next film, huh?
Marty Landman Face 2
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:32:41PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
I fear W may be a petty tyrant and refuse to step down, however.
Hah, funny. Nice plot idea for Arnold Schwarzenegger's next film, huh?
Well, like I said, I fear it might not be a
Paul Johnson wrote:
Well, like I said, I fear it might not be a movie, but what's on
Northwest Cable News.
Sad part is people said the same about Clinton. I wasn't old enough to
care if the same was said about Bush, Reagan or Carter before him.
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:14:36AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:02:53PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Nice of you not to mention the {W} really embarrassing stuff. :)
That's OK. It's 2004. The people will vote their own regime change
soon enough. I fear W may be a
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 10:39:44AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Marty Landman:
At 02:37 PM 2/18/2004, s. keeling wrote:
Of course, there's a lot of people from where I'm from who would dispute
the suggestion that English is spoken anywhere in the US.
Heh. Just shows how
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:07:21 -0800,
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Paul Johnson wrote:
Well, like I said, I fear it might not be a movie, but what's on
Northwest Cable News.
Sad part is people said the same about Clinton. I wasn't old enough
to care
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:07:21 -0800,
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Paul Johnson wrote:
[ ... snip lots of U.S. politics ... ]
Just thought I would add a few WAYs to the subject line.
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 01:12:25PM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 11:14:36AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:02:53PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
Nice of you not to mention the {W} really embarrassing stuff.
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:35:59PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
I swear to Christ, when I was in France, I said to myself: PLEASE GOD
PLEASE get me back to my land of 500 channels of pablum, my 24-hour
Walmart, my drivethroughs, my land of fakeness
Hi Pierre,
Bitte in Englisch schreiben, da ich kein Franzoesisch kann. ;-))
Translation: Please write in English, because i can't read any french. Maybe
we can help you then.
Alex
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Gesendet: Mittwoch,
Strop Alexander wrote:
Hi Pierre,
Bitte in Englisch schreiben, da ich kein Franzoesisch kann. ;-))
Translation: Please write in English, because i can't read any french.
Maybe we can help you then.
Alex
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Von: Pierre-François Gandolfo
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Troy Truchon wrote:
Heck america isn't even english only, despite what many claim. Sadly I never
learned quebecois as my father never picked it up.
Mostly because they dropped English literacy for some
At 01:01 PM 2/18/2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
you just can't make it without English in the US.
I don't know about that Paul; growing up in Brooklyn seemed to me like
everyone did quite nicely thank you.
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 01:53:10PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote:
you just can't make it without English in the US.
I don't know about that Paul; growing up in Brooklyn seemed to me like
everyone did quite nicely thank you.
Right, but not every
On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:01:03AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 08:11:13AM -0800, Troy Truchon wrote:
Heck america isn't even english only, despite what many claim. Sadly I never
learned quebecois as my father never
Marty Landman wrote:
At 01:01 PM 2/18/2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
you just can't make it without English in the US.
I don't know about that Paul; growing up in Brooklyn seemed to me like
everyone did quite nicely thank you.
I was unaware that Brooklyn was considered the whole of the United
Incoming from Steve Lamb:
Marty Landman wrote:
At 01:01 PM 2/18/2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
you just can't make it without English in the US.
I don't know about that Paul; growing up in Brooklyn seemed to me like
everyone did quite nicely thank you.
I was unaware that Brooklyn was
s. keeling wrote:
When I read Marty's reply, it seemed more a play on the idea that
Brooklyn-ites don't actually speak English. Of course, there's a lot
of people from where I'm from who would dispute the suggestion that
English is spoken anywhere in the US. I imagine the British might go
even
At 02:23 PM 2/18/2004, Steve Lamb wrote:
Marty Landman wrote:
At 01:01 PM 2/18/2004, Paul Johnson wrote:
you just can't make it without English in the US.
I don't know about that Paul; growing up in Brooklyn seemed to me like
everyone did quite nicely thank you.
I was unaware that Brooklyn
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On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:37:06PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Ah. You're mixing up subset and superset. Paul said you can't
make it in the US, which includes the subset Brooklyn.
Take all the major multilingual cities combined and it still comes up
At 02:37 PM 2/18/2004, s. keeling wrote:
Marty called him on it and noted English is not necessary in Brooklyn, a
subset of the US, thereby disproving Paul's assumption.
Provided we really consider Brooklyn a proper subset of the US; this was
still the subject of much heated debate at the time
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