Hi!

SD> There is a story about a Russian mathematician (whose name I forget) who
SD> was once chided by a British friend about the way he spoke English.  His
SD> reply was "there are 70 million English that speak English like you and
SD> 240 million Russians that speak it like me"

Steve, mathematicians tend to overgeneralize things... I really doubt
that among 240 (let say, there are that many) million people whose
mother's tongue is Russian, there would be 70 million (I've no idea
about population of England) who speak any English...

But thanks, you made me chuckle...

Boris

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