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Date:      Mon, 27 May 2002 09:16:51 +0700
From:      Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@regency.nsu.ru>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Martin Karlsson <martin.karlsson@visit.se>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, Annelise Anderson <andrsn@ANDRSN.STANFORD.EDU>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dual language (was: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha clock.c)
Message-ID:  <20020527091651.A39265@regency.nsu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <3CF15CAD.C05C6BEE@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:07:41PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> Second counter-example: many of the former Russian republics have
> official languages, the best overall description of which is really
> "anything but Russian".  Kazhakstan is probably the best known to

Actually, "Khazakstan" is more correct.

> people in the U.S. (and most likely that's as much because of the
> fact that it ends in "stan" like "Afghanistan", as for the brush-fire
> conflict that flares up periodically between it and Russia).

Well, I'd say that "flares up periodically" seems a bit harder-said than
it actually should, though Khazakstan is far not the only "stan"-suffixed
republics of former USSR.  It's not only the ending that makes it "the
best known to people in the U.S." ;-P

./danfe


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