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

Ben Norwood <bdn...@aber.ac.uk> wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0001101429100.23149-100000@xena...
> On Thursday, JRO wrote:
>
> English =/= U.S. Only language
>
> English is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world
> (afaik second only to Mandarin) - and is a very significant language in
> the UK (where it originated!), Australia, New Zealand, South Africa,
> Japan, and Hong Kong as well as the U.S. and Canada.

I hear even the Welsh speak English, too.



> Jonathon - a word of advice - if you can't say anything sensible, then
> don't say it at all (trust me, I spent a year on the recieving end of
> numerous flamewars in aber.* back in 1996 before I learned to enguage
> my brain before putting my fingers into gear...)

If I said anything sensible, no one would read my posts.


> Oh, and to the rest of you, hope you had a Merry Christmas and are
> having a Happy New Year...and could someone do something about the
> signal:noise ratio in here <g>...247 messages here (according to Pine),
> of the 150-or-so I've seen so far only about 10 have included any
> ascii-art, the rest have been flamewars (I'm getting sorely tempted to
> do a ;aadx)...


Well, don't read this thread. I am still posting ascii, as you may have
noticed...

Be good,
 JRO