Re: "Usefull languages"

In a message dated 2002.02.19 07.33.47 PM, cowan@MERCURY.CCIL.ORG writes:

>Padraic Brown scripsit:
>> Am 19.02.02, J Y S Czhang yscrifef:
>>
>> > b.> IMHO it is a better constitution than most - including the
>> > American one.
>>
>> OK. You've got my interest. What's the url?
    Christophe has the URL. I lost some of my favourite URL addresses after
my AOL and 'puter crashed recently (AiYaH!).

>> > I really like the fact that the Dutch constitution was actually
>> > created by the input of the people living in the Netherlands rather
>than just
>> > an elitist cabal of politicians, capitalists, technocrats, militarists,
>> > police, priests, etc. creating a constitution behind closed doors and
>then
>> > foisting it on "their" people and saying: "we know what is best for
>you, so
>> > stop whining about 'democracy' and shutup."
>>
>> Totally ignores the history of the moment: there had _never_ been
>> a C like it before the US one; the Netherlands had a couple
>> centuries of history and scads of constitutions and dozens of
>> constitutional congresses to look at for help; that elitist cabal
>> _was_ elected (if imperfectly by 21st century standards) and the
>> whole thing _was_ ratified by reps from the States; closed doors
>> is interesting - I wonder if they could have even done it at all
>> with 100% public scrutiny. But anyway...
    I shoulda been more clear that I was referring to more recent
constitutions other than the American "paradigm."

>> > BTW I learned to read from the _Curious George_ series and Sendak's
>> > _Where the Wild Things Are_. My Mum thinks this explains a lot about
>my early
>> > childhood development and core-character.
>>
>> Definitely two excellent sources to learn from!
    It was my dad's idea that I learn to read from anything that caught (&
kept) my interest since my mother was loath to use the Dick & Jane book
series and had no clue what to get me to read. Besides my dad liked the look
of the Curious George series... somewhat simian -er - similar to the young
Chinese Monkey King-God SunWuKong ;)

>> > One of my favourite items in my linguistics collection is a brochure
>that
>> > came with my French press for coffee-making :) The brochure is in 12
>> > languages! (Mostly European languages, but Japanese, Russian, Korean
>and
>> > Chinese are also represented).
>>
>> Unhappily, it seems that actual instruction content is reduced to
>> 'figure it out yourself' because of all the languages they have
>> to publish the instruction book in. Not that I'm complaining,
>> mind. Such things are easy enough to sort out; and it's fun to
>> see how they translate (or completely screw up the
>> translation! of) things into other languages. I also note that a
>> lot of product labels (especially foods) are found in both
>> English and French.
    Oh this brochure is well written (& clearly illustrated, too). But any
person who really seriously loves their coffee should already know how to use
a French press, so the brochure is sort of like "over-kill" ;)

>> > czHANg23
>>
>> > musical mad scientist
>>
>> What weird and terrible concoction have you come up with now? ;)
    Workin' on gettin' a demotape/CD goin' - music dedicated to the
TricksterGods - sometime before the end of this Summer, ::crosses fingies::
hopefully... It's been 7 years since I have actually recorded anything more
than "sketches." More details when they develop, if they develop...

czHANg


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