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To: HiTech RedNeck

India has the largest English language daily newspaper (by circulation) in the world, the Times of India. That should tell us something.


18 posted on 09/24/2011 10:41:51 PM PDT by federal__reserve (Peace through strength has worked better than peace via appeasement in history.)
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To: federal__reserve

English certainly can boast the largest vocabulary of any language in the world. Whether that is a help to engineers and scientists, I wouldn’t know.

It is to laugh to look at the things that language chauvinists in tongues like French come up with in the technical world. If it weren’t for the mighty efforts of these chauvinists, French computer geeks would be talking about “le motherboard,” “la microprocessor” and the like.


20 posted on 09/24/2011 11:02:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (There's gonna be a Redneck Revolution! (See my freep page) [rednecks come in many colors])
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