From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jul 21 09:37:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22992 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:37:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from niobe.ewox.org (ppp002.uio.no [129.240.240.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22972 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 09:36:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from finrod@niobe.ewox.org) Received: (from finrod@localhost) by niobe.ewox.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10645; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 18:36:20 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from finrod) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Dying Languages Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: finrod@niobe.ewox.org (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 21 Jul 1998 18:36:19 +0200 Message-ID: <86yatncgak.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just received the July number of Scientific American. There is a rather entertaining item in the _Letters to the Editors_ on page 5: Rodger Doyle's piece on "Languages, Disappearing and Dead" ["By the Numbers", News and Analysis, March] seems to have an omission for the U.S. You left out Appletalk. But I leave it to you to decide wether or not Apple should be classified as "endangered" or "moribund". Doug Waud Worcester, Mass. DES -- Sorry, no .sig today. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message