Re: CHAT: Nov 11th
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, November 16, 1999, 22:28 |
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On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>The one European country that escaped the vicissitudes of war this century
>is Switzerland, which has four official languages. The peoples of that
>country seem to get along fine with feeling any urge to slaughter one
>another.
Perhaps one side can never get a proper translation of its declaration
of war into the other three languages, so they collectively say "Well,
blow that for a game of soldiers. Let's all just set a spell with a
quiet brew or three."
Padraic.
>Ray.