From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Apr 8 16:25:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 53F4037B68C for ; Sat, 8 Apr 2000 16:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 1792 invoked by uid 211); 8 Apr 2000 23:25:11 -0000 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 04:55:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Brett Glass Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , Marco Molteni , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000409045511.D1715@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <20000407102159.B8417@sofia.csl.sri.com> <38EE4C97.B9B83C7A@asme.org> <20000407143054.A9684@sofia.csl.sri.com> <38EEA9B9.8BE1D8A0@asme.org> <4.2.2.20000408112619.04688100@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000408112619.04688100@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:26:55AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >Carlo V ha detto che il Francese e per parlare su diplomasia, il > >spagnolo e per parlare con Dio e il tedesche e per parlare con gli > >animali. > > I'd hate to think what he would have said about English. I've seen a similar quote somewhere, I'm not sure who said it: "Spanish is the language for lovers, Italian for singers, French for diplomats, German for horses, and English for geese." Just did a web search for that. It seems to have been quoted as a Spanish proverb (without source) by H L Mencken. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message