Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?)

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, JRO wrote:

> You have made a few misguided observations, here. I have never said everything
> on Usenet or the Internet is in English. I do believe MOST of the material
> on Usenet and the Internet is in English. Don't you think so?

Yeah, wait, i remember! It was... 94%! Or was it 49%...? Sh*t, screwed
it up again...

Even if i thought so, i wouldn't care until it's anything short of 
100%. But i'm not sure that i should think so. Again, though i could
believe that the language with the greatest percentage of Internet
material is English, this doesn't mean its percentage is greater than
50%. Being 'MOST', the way you use it above, is being greater than 50%
IMHO. But this is not about numbers you know. My problem with your
attitude is that you seem to be a hypocrite to me. You're
discriminating. I laughed my *ss off on one of your sigs ('Usenet is
about caring&sharing' or something like that). You are the funniest
when you'd like to be serious...

> "Helito, noshobo oushi."
> 
> This is how I would say hello to a small dog-like creature. There are
> no newsgroups for people who speak Choctaw. Do you believe?

Sure, if it is a language made up for communicating with puppies. In
fact, i saw a statistics yesterday that 0% of the users of Internet
are small dog-like creatures. Although i usually don't care much about
statistics, i tend to believe this particular one. 

OK, so you speak English, Choctaw... is that all there is?

> By the way... Why do you bother to post here? 

Believe me, i'm not proud of my participating in this thread, and hope
to finish it soon. I simply got upset (rare event) on your behaviour,
which to me was too arrogant to skip over it.

> If you wish to speak "hat akkor", go type it to people who care, not
> to an English Speaking newsgroup.

Calm down now, i do it regularly.

> Your post is actually not off-topic, on this sub-thread.

But it's unfortunately off-topic on aaa.

> Last I checked, I invented the laser beam, the automobile,
> the atomic bomb, and the pop-up toaster. 

No, the pop-up toaster was me! Liar.

> I am aware of
> early networks in France, but it was a commercial failure,

Uh-huh. You can ignore, too, the whole mathematical and physical
theory & its development behind the working of computers and 
telecommunication, since it has always been also a commercial failure.
You know this bitchin' Internet has *history*, which dates back, say
prior to Columbus' time if you like (or if you don't like for that
matter). Abacuses were fairly common by that time i think. :-]

> prior to Mosaic. Checking in the Chemical Abstracts yielded
> the information that Europe has made no contributions for
> humanity, 

Go check out some other source. I've never believed a bit
appearing in Chemical Abstracts. Now i know why. :)

greetings,
Gergely Kronome.