[52855] in Cypherpunks
Re: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign languages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Helm)
Thu Mar 28 13:44:06 1996
From: mike@fionn.lbl.gov (Michael Helm)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 08:20:37 PST
In-Reply-To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May)
"Re: Why Americans feel no compulsion to learn foreign languages" (Mar 28, 2:13am)
Reply-To: mike@fionn.lbl.gov
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Mar 28, 2:13am, Timothy C. May wrote:
> communicate with his neighbor, nor do I deny Michael Helm's point that by
> not studying Talegu we are denying ourselves access to the world's culture.
> In my next 25 lifetimes, with the advent of Nanocryonic Revitalization, I
Anyone who can read, should not have any problem figuring out that
I never made anything resembling the "point" ascribed to me.
There is certainly no point in carrying on a discussion with
someone who makes false attributions like this.
I could care less what language the people around me speak, but
it would be a more civilized world if they took care to tone
up their reasoning. And when they need to resort to lies like
this to shore up their arguments, tar & feather 'em.
