Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cheviot.uucp Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!andy From: andy@cheviot.uucp (Andy Linton) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: International Unix (:-) Message-ID: <488@cheviot.uucp> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 06:12:45 EST Article-I.D.: cheviot.488 Posted: Thu Oct 31 06:12:45 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:00:37 EST References: <2400@brl-tgr.ARPA> <864@mcvax.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@cheviot.UUCP (Andy Linton) Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K. Lines: 31 In article <864@mcvax.UUCP> piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) writes: > > >Wouldn't it be easier to convince the Europeans to speak English? :-) >Far easier would it be to get all Americans to speak Dutch... :-) > I agree with piet but.... Wouldn't Gaelic be a better choice - hardly anyone knows any so we all start out equal (I have already started). There are only sixteen characters in the alphabet with two extra symbols (sineadh fada - it looks like the french acute accent and the inclusion of the letter 'h' to indicate aspiration of the preceding letter. We may even be able to reduce the number of bits in a byte! All the Americans who claim Irish or Scottish extraction will have an inherent ability to master this as it is part of their unconscious folk heritage(:-). I don't want my culture (Anglo-Irish) swamped by the American one any more than the rest of the Europeans do. After all 'Live the difference' doesn't have the same ring to it in English as in French. Slainte mhaith, Andy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SENDER : Aindrias Mac Giolla Fhionntain PHONE : +44 632 329233 POST : Computing Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU ARPA : andy%cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk@ucl-cs.ARPA) JANET : andy@uk.ac.newcastle.cheviot UUCP :!ukc!cheviot!andy *** Ni fui moran beagan d'aon rud, ach is fui moran beagan ceille. ***