Re: Moniñesh
From: | yl-ruil <yl-ruil@...> |
Date: | Thursday, April 27, 2000, 8:30 |
Barry Garcia wrote:
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >But surely all that fallout would negatively affect the whole Western
> >Hemisphere! Outside of the Americas, Spanish is a pretty minor
> >language. I'd expect a language like German to be more influential.
>
> I was thinking the same thing. For Canada to nuke enough of the US, and
> the US to do the same, there would surely be enough radioactive fallout
> blown into the upper atmosphere, and carried in the winds heading east to
> affect western Europe. Since most of Canada's population lives 100 miles
> from the Canada/US border, they would have to strike hard and fast to nuke
> enough of the US, before the US launched it's nukes and wiped out Canada.
It was a joke, referring to all that US/Canada antagonism we all had to put
up with on the list a while back.
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Bengesko niamso.
Cursed German.
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Dan Morrison (http://www.geocities.com/yl_ruil/index.html)