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From: Nick Rezmerski <rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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Date: Fri, 17 Feb 1995 14:49:37 GMT
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Marc Bonnaud <mbonnaud@dialup.francenet.fr> wrote:
>
> mra@rhea.hut.fi (Marko Rauhamaa) wrote:
> > 
> > Imagine, for example, that one		Imagu ekzemple, ke unu Francois
> > Francois Mitterand and one John		Mitterand kaj unu John Major devus
> > Major had to appeal to the European	apelacii al la euxropa publiko
> > audience concerning, say, sending a	koncerne ekzemple tion, cxu oni
> > European manned spacecraft to Mars.	sendu euxropan homekipitan
> > Suppose they would both have to		spacosxipon al Marso.  Ni supozu, ke
> > express their completely opposite	ambaux ili devus esprimi siajn tute
> > opinions in English.  Even if - as	malajn opiniojn angle.  Kvankam -
> > some stated - Europeans in general	kiel kelkaj asertis - euxropanoj
> > already mastered English, wouldn't	gxenerale jam majstrus la anglan,
> > you say one of the politicians is in	cxu vi ne dirus, ke unu el la
> > a clear disadvantage?			politikistoj havas klaran
> > 					malavantagxon?
> 
> 1 : Mitterrand ne parle pas un traitre mot d'anglais.
> 2 : Que diable irions-nous faire sur Mars ?

Gee, I wish I could understand what     Nu, mi deziras ke mi povus
Mr. Bonnaud is saying.  Why can't he    kompreni kion S-ro Bonnaud
just learn to speak English like        diras.  Kial li ne povas
everyone else on the net?  ;-)          simple lerni paroli angle,
                                        tiel la tutaj aliaj
  - Nick@Nite (Nikolaso)                ret-uzantoj?  ;-)
    rezm0001@gold.tc.umn.edu



