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From: sloubtin@cs.tcd.ie (Sylvain Louboutin)
Subject: Re: talk & travel
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Organization: Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
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Date: Sat, 18 Feb 1995 00:58:26 GMT
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hlu@GAS.UUG.Arizona.EDU (Hung J Lu) writes:

>2) OK, suppose your grand children have to learn Chinese (I mean
>   the reformed version) as the international language. 
>   What's so bad about that?

that I can tell you from experience; (grand parents forced to learn the
dominant language;) if you don't speak the (native) language of your
grandparents you are at a loss;   lots of stuff one can learn from
their old folks;  creates a gap which can't be bridged later on...

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