Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S275200AbTHGOTH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:19:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275278AbTHGOTH (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:19:07 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:37541 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S275200AbTHGOTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Aug 2003 10:19:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 16:19:13 +0200 From: Herbert =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=F6tzl?= To: Dick Streefland Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] Re: Euro-English Message-ID: <20030807141913.GA380@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Dick Streefland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030806231403.GF1380@pegasys.ws> <20030805233308.GD928@matchmail.com> <200308052014.31133.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20030806231403.GF1380@pegasys.ws> <409a.3f322c49.c82b0@altium.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <409a.3f322c49.c82b0@altium.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1827 Lines: 43 On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:39:05AM -0000, Dick Streefland wrote: > Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > | Yes, but try going skiing to the Alps. Checkout French, Austrian, Italian > | side glaciers. And try to get any response more correct than "we pipl buys > | tickets, ski lift not works", and so on. > > It depends on the part of Europe. Not incidentally, in the countries > you mention, all foreign content shown on televison and in movie > theaters is dubbed. In other countries such as the Scandinavian > countries, The Netherlands and Belgium, almost everything is > sub-titled. I think there is a direct relation between dubbing and the > lack of English language skills. hmm, there is a joke in Austria, where some obviously polyglot person asks two natives in several languages for directions ... and gets no answer at all, when he has left, one of the natives says to the other: "have you heard how many languages he spoke?", and the other replies: "yeah sure, but did it do him any good?" so not everybody capable of speaking english will do so ... best, Herbert > -- > Dick Streefland //// Altium BV > dick.streefland@altium.nl (@ @) http://www.altium.com > --------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo--------------------------- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/