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In article <Fn18nI.81s@lugnet.com>, mario.ferrari@edis.it says... (...) Spanish is taught in some schools as the easier option for the educationally challenged :-) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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In article <38b85aeb.436875145@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) That's what I meant in a way - you would really have to standardize in the local currency of the location. (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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In article <38b45681.435745144@...gnet.com>, jasper@janssen.dynip.com says... (...) I thought that might be a problem but I asked anyway. (...) Maybe difficult when trying to read whole threads but it'll do for now. (...) More reasons not to (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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Ian Bishop <ian@goodlife.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:TBHRscA2fTX4Ewy...n.co.uk... (...) UK would be more appropriate I think, since it would give a chance to visit Legoland, which would be a very nice experience at all. Selçuk (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) software (...) I agree. Look at this experiment (babelfish): Your original sentence: "I'd rather not.. Translation software is kind of icky in general, and copyright issues I think would make automated translation a rather expensive (...) (25 years ago, 20-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) If you're going to hold it in the UK, standardize on pounds. I don't think if you come to a country you can assume they'll accept your currency. Setting up shop near a Bank, Change-booth, or ATM may be a good idea, though ;) Jasper (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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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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(...) Speaking of which, I'm going to be (mostly) offline till the 6th of January - my girlfriend is coming over from Toronto and won't tolerate too much geekage :) So please feel free as usual to email me if you'd like to be added etc, but bear in (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) Although it was an unintentional pun it still reminds me of a good point. Many of the buy-sell-trades at a LEGOFest involve a bit of cash changing hands - what currency could you do that in considering Euros don't exist in the UK and only (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) Maybe we should try to persuade Todd to integrate some translation software into this newsgroup. I've added lugnet.admin.general (...) Unfortunately I can only do English, the French of an 8 year old and very limited German, probably aged 3. (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.admin.general)
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From a UK perspective, Paris must be one of the best options - easily accessible by various means from the south of England where many AFOL's live, but also from the central belt of Scotland via the Ryanair flights from Prestwick (between 29 and 60 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) Hi Ardjan, Your are good points. And these are the reasons for Richard is keeping a list of the possible attendees. When we'll have some more info about the number and location of the coming AFOLs, we'll be in a better position to decide where (...) (25 years ago, 19-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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Hi! I was thinking about the european Legofest. I think there are two things to check first: - Where are the european lugnet-active AFOLers living? How many do want to come? - Where is the geografical center (counted by travel-cost) of this group of (...) (25 years ago, 18-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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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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(...) (URL) usually quite good, although it came up with this (Marco): "From the great societies us puo' not to expect better null. Not six successful one to knowing if them they have rispediti to the society mother or if they have destroyed them?" (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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Which European country will be first this year, I wonder? Lat year it was Holland, If my memory serves... Huw (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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(...) IMHO, I don't agree. I'd surely be quite upset finding a non-english (and non-italian of course :-) message in loc.eu I see cross-posting as a great advantage, but I can't see the advantage of writing in other languages in this NG... Every (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)
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(...) you (...) Heh. (...) For what it's worth, it doesn't seem inappropriate to me to crosspost a message in Italian to .eu. Europe is a polyglot of languages, and I wouldn't be surprised to see posts in .eu in many different languages. (Not that (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu, lugnet.loc.it)
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marco berti wrote... (...) in (...) thank you (...) Oh, it was all fun. I actually tried to understand what you wrote, unsuccessfully of course. As you see I don't mind taking the time answering you again, most likely depending on me having a heck (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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Mario Ferrari wrote... (...) Of course I do. I never meant to sound grumpy, just wanted to point out that local groups may have to watch out for x-posting. Not the least me, since I guess even fewer people know swedish. =) Now, lets plan a fun (...) (25 years ago, 17-Dec-99, to lugnet.loc.eu)
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