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In lugnet.loc.eu, Ardjan Besse writes:
> Right, there are a lot of languages in Europe, and just a small part of
> Europe has english as national language. But since In our western-orientaded
> world english is the main language (but chines ist the most spoken language
> on this planet!), it is right to keep lugnet.loc.eu english, also counting
> the fact that the main part of lugnet (and the creator/owner) speaks
> english.
Maybe we should try to persuade Todd to integrate some translation software
into this newsgroup. I've added lugnet.admin.general
> On the other hand, is is natural that sometimes postings/sentences in
> non-english appear here. For my part no problem. I understand English,
> German and Dutch, all other languages I won't be able to read, so I have to
> ignore them, sorry... 8-) As long as the .eu newsgroup won't evolve into
> some natiuonal-ng, it's ok with me.
Unfortunately I can only do English, the French of an 8 year old and very
limited German, probably aged 3. Why do they teach French instead of German in
UK schools - German is much more useful.
> Maybe the lugnet.loc.eu group should be kept in Esperanto? 8-)
No-one knows how to speak that - we'd all be in the same boat then :-)
Carbon 60
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| (...) I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive proposition. At most a URL to babelfish or something like that. (...) Ah, but the French have (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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| Op een zekere dag, te weten Fri, 17 Dec 1999 14:47:44 GMT, klom "Nephilim" <jthompson@esker.com> in het toetsenbord en schreef ons: (...) Right, there are a lot of languages in Europe, and just a small part of Europe has english as national (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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