Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Michael Everson
Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries: School curricula are quite crowded already. Every extra language you add is less time for math or history or science or the native language. And where do you find the teachers for all these extra languages? I would like to see any

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Guy Schockaert
on 31/12/2000 18:12, John H. Jenkins at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 4:53 AM -0800 12/31/00, Michael Everson wrote: Ar 07:48 -0800 2000-12-30, scríobh Patrick Andries: Trilingualism and more is I'm afraid just too much to ask of most people who aren't full-time language professionals or

Re: [langue-fr] L'anglais est-il une langue universelle ?

2000-12-31 Thread Alain LaBonté 
À 05:40 2000-12-31 -0800, Darya Said-Akbari a écrit: Hello Alain, after your explanation I dont know what we should discuss now. Did you expect such a reaction from all the friends in this list? They all like to tell their experiences to each other. And once you read them you can find a lot of

Syriac questions (erratum ?)

2000-12-31 Thread Patrick Andries
Questions after a cursory reading of the Syriac section (8.3) in TUS 3.0. Page 200 : do we have to understand from fig. 8.5 that SAM is used to differentiate number in letters from alphabetic letters ? In this case, is this important usage mentioned anywhere ? Page 201 : usage of QUSHSHAYA and