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From: Murray.Root@mindspring.com (Danette & Murray Root)
Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!!
Date: 1997/11/29
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 23:51:48 +0000, Ingemar Ragnemalm <ingemar@lysator.liu.se>
wrote in comp.lang.c:

=> My God, what a thread. I thought that title said it all:
=> 
=> Don't kick the minority. First, it takes a coward to do so,
=> and second, you may find yourself in a minority one day yourself.
=> English vs chinese is just an example, if you only care about
=> numbers.
=> 
=> Personally I love being in minorities. It is more fun, as long as
=> they don't get extinct. Wouldn't it be boring if all people in the
=> world spoke american english, dressed in jeans, ate hamburgers,
=> drank Coke, programmed in C++ on Intel PC's with Windows, sang
=> country&western, ... (etc, etc)
=> 
That's not boring - that's hell. I hate Coke and country&western, Hamburgers
are only good when I cook them. C++ is not as much fun as C and assembler.
Windows is a premature birth (3.x looked more like a still-born, but it was
revived), if it grows up it might be useful.
 
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