At 04:03 AM 8/19/98 -0400, you wrote: >As an Englishman it's probably unfair of me to say the following, but here >goes anyway... > >Sooner or later the rest of the world is going to have to come to terms >with the fact that English is the international language. Somehow I can't >imagine the French teaching their children English as their first language >(ditto other European countries), but it would make life so much easier! > >The other alternative to conducting the competition in English is to pick a >language that everyone is equally *un*familiar with - how's about >Mongolian?! At least we'd only have to find one judge... > >David Higgon >London >
There was an old joke in my old country: Optimists learn English Pessimists learn Russian Realists learn Chinese Mike Koblic, Quesnel BC (Optimist, pessimist, never came to grip with reality)
