From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!phonlab!sdcatta!wa277 Newsgroups: net.news.groups Title: Re: net.lang.french Article-I.D.: sdcatta.441 Posted: Mon May 31 11:57:04 1982 Received: Thu Jun 3 01:30:04 1982 References: pur-ee.338 Though not a native speaker, I'd certainly be interested in French and Spanish newsgroups. There might be people working in machine translation who could share ideas. Another possibility is multilingual jokes, e.g. "Pourquoi est-ce que Fidel Castro porte des bretelles? --Parce qu'il a le Cuba!" Since these tend to require a rather advanced knowledge of slang & cultural referents they'd be best on a group of their own. David Sewell, UC San Diego