From: "David K. Merriman" <merriman@arn.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 23:24:26 +0800
To: Steve Gibbons <steve@aztech.net>
Subject: RE: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign langua
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At 10:58 PM 03/29/96 -700, you wrote:
>More fuel for the fire: I've noticed that I've been able to follow this entire
>thread, and my multi-lingual skills are only as extensive as beer-ordering and
>restroom-finding in a few languages.

The second necessarily follows from the first :-)

Dave
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