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Re: CHAT: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes

From:Jean-François Colson <fa597525@...>
Date:Saturday, May 1, 2004, 21:47
From: "Philippe Caquant" <herodote92@...>

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> This all written on a surface of 4 x 5 cm, that is, > about the size of a standard stamp from Mongolia. The > matchbox is made in Czech Republic. Now wait ! That > was only 12 languages. But on the 1st of May (in three > days !) there will be 25 countries in the European > Union. So they will soon have to add Hungarian, > Estonian, Maltese and Slovak, among others > (including... Czech).
And while we're still on the 1st of May... <UTF-8 ¡¡¡¡¡UNICODE ALERT!!!!!> Welcome Tere tulemast to the Estonians Sveiki atvyke to the Lituanians Laipni lūdzam to the Latvians Merhba to the Maltese Üdvözlöm to the Hungarians Dobrodošel to the Slovenes Vitame vás to the Slovaks Vítejte to the Czechs Witajcie to the Polish Καλωσορίσατε to the Cypriots </UTF-8> Jean-François jfcolson@belgacom.net

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Danny Wier <dawiertx@...>The EU expands (was Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes)