Re: "Usefull languages"

Czhang wrote:
>
>In a message dated 2002.02.18 12.04.27 PM, and_yo@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
>
> >The Aquamarine Demon wrote:
> >>OT: I assume most pioneers probably had a bible, but then, I don't think
> >>that's much more entertaining than a dictionary, imo....
> >>
> >
> >You rather like dictionaries, do you? In any case, IMHO pretty much ANY
> >continuous text, be it the mission statement of the Uzbek ministry of
> >cotton, is more interesting than a dictionary.
>
>     I like dictionaries a lot myself (esp'ly foreign language dictionaries
>and polyglot ones)... but I also like "continous text" too. But I have also
>had the recent politico-aesthetic joy of reading the Constitution of the
>Netherlands [thanx Christophe].
>     Occasionally I have been known to read gum wrappers, phone books, and
>ingredient lists on cereal boxes ;)
I should perhaps clarify that I in no way dislike dictionaries, and may even
be found browsing thru' one on the chance I'll find something interesting.
It's just that sitting down and actually reading a dictionary, like you'd
read a novel, is unbearably tedious.

                                                Andreas

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