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Re: My first message.

From:Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
Date:Thursday, August 5, 1999, 21:57
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> 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