> Gespracht wrote: >> >Beside that, many Europeans seem to practice a blunt, abrupt style of >> >speech. >> >> Very true, and on the whole it's a good thing I think. > > It might also party explain why there's been several thousands of years > of European wars. ;-)
The point is that many Europeans whose first language isn't English speak a form of English that is different from that spoken by those to whom English is their "mother tongue." If the point is to get a technical message across, and, for engineers and the like, that *is* the point, some of the niceties are properly secondary. -- (reverse (concatenate 'string "moc.liamg" "@" "enworbbc")) http://linuxfinances.info/info/lisp.html Rules of the Evil Overlord #192. "If I appoint someone as my consort, I will not subsequently inform her that she is being replaced by a younger, more attractive woman. <http://www.eviloverlord.com/> _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
