Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: RE: English-only Speakers as Unclutured Slobs Message-ID: <723@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 17:50:20 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.723 Posted: Wed Feb 29 17:50:20 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 2-Mar-84 06:22:19 EST References: <349@hogpc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 17 Another reason for learning another language than one's native tongue is that there are times when it can actually be useful. I was working for a company some time ago when news of an important discovery in its field came through. Some of the engineers wanted to get the original paper describing it, but when it came from Paris, it turned out to be in French. It turned out that I was the only person at the plant with the necessary proficiency in French to read it. (I was placed on loan from the programming department to the engineering department for a day to do the translation.) It was another 2 weeks until an English language version filtered down to us, but I had managed to give them a jump on it. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs--Naperville, IL ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2