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From: tom@uwai.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang
Subject: non-English Articles
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Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 09:43:06 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 11 09:43:06 1984
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> > --
> > En j0diske kvinde der hedder "Maria"?  Det er da noget du tror!!
> 
> Jeg kende en finske kvinde som hedder Maria. Hvorfor skulle den j0diske vaere
> umulig?
> -- 
> 	Dr Memory
> 	...{amd,ucbvax,ihnp4}!qubix!jdb

Ok, all right already.  Enough is enough.  net.jokes is no place to submit
articles written in non-English languages.  Very few people can read them,
and since NO ONE EVER BOTHERS TO SUPPLY TRANSLATIONS, this is very frustrating
to the majority of us.  

I therefore propose the creation of a new group, net.flang, with subgroups
such as net.flang.spanish, net.flang.french, net.flang.russian, 
net.flang.yiddish, net.flang.norwegian, etc.  Articles posted to these 
groups would not necessarily be about that particular language, but they
would be written *in* that language.  This way those of us with more than
one tongue might communicate between ourselves w/o driving the rest of
the net crazy.  

I must admit that while I believe that this idea has much merit, I somewhat
doubt whether it shall be implemented.  I can't help remembering the old 
joke:
	What do you call a man who speaks three languages:
		trilingual.
	What do you call a man who speaks two languages:
		bilingual.
	What do you call a man who speaks one language:
		American.

tom
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Tom Christiansen
University of Wisconsin
Computer Science Systems Lab 
...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom
tom@wisc-crys.arpa