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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Jan 2000.
Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re: So, You Want To Make Tex

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

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:41:08 +0100, "Ool" <Ulr...@t-online.de>
provoked the following text:

>But try and have a conversation in English with someone here in Germa-
>ny.  Or Poland.  Or--Dare I say it?--France...  People appear to be
>incredibly keen on isolating themselves from the world.  Why?!

I bet you've never been to Holland, have you? The Dutch take great pride in
being able to speak (on average) 2.5 different languages.
It's even so bad that one American complained to me that it's near impossible
for him to learn Dutch because everyone kept on speaking English to him!

>Uh-oh!  Something's got me started about that old topic again.  Better
>stop before the migrane strikes!

Just take an aspirin (made by Bayer, the inventor of the chemical plant :-)) and
you should be okay again :-)
-- 
        Peter Punk
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Subject: Re: We are all Americans! (WAS: Re: So, You Want To Make Text Art?)
Date: 2000/01/13
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