> When at University we were told during the exam for Comparative
> Linguistics, that we could give answers in any European language,
> most American, African and Asian languages, but that papers written
> in Malay would take somewhat longer to process, since the professor
> specialised in Austronesian was on sabbatical ;-)... I think that
> on this list there's bound to be someone who can read a message
> in an obscure natlang, but if you've got something you want to
> tell everybody about, English is perhaps the best choice, I'm
> afraid - but nobody is going to flame anyone for his command of
> it, I'm sure.
>
> Boudewijn Rempt |
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
Flame someone for their command of English? Pish! Native speakers can't
even speak English correctly!
--Patrick