Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uwai.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwai!tom From: tom@uwai.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes,net.jokes.d,net.news.group,net.nlang Subject: non-English Articles Message-ID: <154@uwai.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Nov-84 09:43:06 EST Article-I.D.: uwai.154 Posted: Sun Nov 11 09:43:06 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 12-Nov-84 07:17:52 EST References: <452@diku.UUCP> <1314@ihuxq.UUCP> <1524@qubix.UUCP> Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 40 > > -- > > 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 -- Tom Christiansen University of Wisconsin Computer Science Systems Lab ...!{allegra,heurikon,ihnp4,seismo,uwm-evax}!uwvax!tom tom@wisc-crys.arpa