Re: Miscellaneous comments/questions.

2000-07-13 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 07:50 AM 7/13/00 -0800, Antoine Leca wrote: Alex Bochannek wrote: A similar issue was very interesting to observe in France and Germany. The use of the English language in advertisement seems to run rampant in Germany while almost all ads that include English in France (mostly tag

Miscellaneous comments/questions.

2000-07-12 Thread Alex Bochannek
Hi! I just returned from a lengthy trip through parts of Europe and thought I mention some observations. In Greece, I noticed that almost all signs used monotonic Greek. I saw some older road signs and a couple of store signs that used polytonic Greek, but according to a Greek acquaintance,