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- From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (William Heiser)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Error Code List
- Message-ID: <105987@bu.edu>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 03:57:28 GMT
- References: <105945@bu.edu> <1993Jan3.231327.2564@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan3.231327.2564@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >And here's another possibility: they've got just enough room for a
- >couple short strings. Why not pick the five top world languages, say,
- >and use those? Perhaps we'll insult the Croatians and the Lithuanians
- >in the process, but it might be an improvement.
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- Well, I assume you're being facitious :-)
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- I (apparently incorrectly) assumed that ENGLISH was basically a standard
- at least at the *OS* level. I figured it was similar to the standard
- established for Air Traffic Control, where it is nearly universally
- agreed (so I'm told) that English is the official language.
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- BTW, the Croatian girl in my AI class this past semester spoke
- very good English :-) :-)
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