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From: norskog@fortune.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RE: English-only Speakers as Unclutu - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 1-Mar-84 19:06:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar  1 19:06:29 1984
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fortune!norskog    Mar  1 13:44:00 1984

Tee hee!

Computer Science is one of the few well-populated sciences/engineering 
disciplines which was not dominated by Germany, Russia or some other
European country before and during the first half of the twentieth
century; we Yanks/Canucks/Brits are very lucky that English is the 
hacker's lingua fraca.  Up till the sixties, any serious science or
engineering curriculum required strong technical reading proficiency in
German or Russian.  My father's (Berkeley Chem. Eng. '42) was in German.

Lance "I spoke fluent Spanish at one time, too bad ATT won't sell UNIX
south of the border" Norskog
Fortune Systems, 101 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA
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