Look Guys! This is getting out of hand. I speak a language which I doubt is spoken by any other member of the list, but I am quite happy to use English as a lingua franca for international communications. It is a fact of life that in commerce, science generally and many other area of human life that this is so.
I can speak several other languages and I am happy to use them, but if I want to participate in a useful and interesting list such as this, I must use English. Its a function of colonial history, not xenophobia or racism. Had Spain or Portugal maintained their pre-eminent positions, I would be just as happy to speak Spanish or Portugese. When the Chinese take over as leaders in business and science. I will be happy to use their language (if I can learn it). As far as I am aware this list is about sun dials in all their aspects, scientific, artistic and temporal. I have learned a lot from it, all in English. The verse competition proposed by Tony Moss is entertaining and a good idea, but not if it gives rise to this kind of stuff and nonsense. lets gey back to dialling, please. Paul Murphy 53* 17' N 06* 08' W Epistolas non amo nisi serenas
