🚀 go-pugleaf

Bruce Cox writes:

> > > So what? I haven't seen anything to the effect that this is an
> > > English-only newsgroup.  I'd say anybody who posts to this group in
> > > German, Japanse or Finnish is entirely welcome to do so (with the
> > > understanding that they won't get much response in a group where about
> > > 99 per cent of the correspondence is in English.)
> 
> I don't know.  This post got some response (admittedly, it was criticism
> of both language and content).  Oftentimes, someone will repost it with
> translation anyhow, certainly if someone asks for a translation.
> Everyone should know a little German anyway...
> 
> Cheers,
> bruce
> 
> P.S. ... O.K., I admit the last statement is ridiculous.

True - only try to learn German if you really, really have a good reason to
- like staying in Germany for an extended time.


--
Juergen Hubert - who wouldn't bother to learn German even if he weren't a native
speaker...

HUB...@gawein.physik.uni-erlangen.de

"Sometimes I do stupid stuff, and I don't even know why...
..as if my body were controlled by some demented, sadistic puppet-master..."
                                         -- Bernard Bernoulli
"Well, we all feel that way sometimes."
                                         -- Weird Ed Edison
                                                    in: "Day of the Tentacle"