Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 04:55:11 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org>, Marco Molteni <molter@sofia.csl.sri.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: BSDCon East Message-ID: <20000409045511.D1715@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20000408112619.04688100@localhost>; from brett@lariat.org on Sat, Apr 08, 2000 at 11:26:55AM -0600 References: <v04220805b511f7c7e2a6@[195.238.1.121]> <8cj1cg$1gse$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> <xzpya6qp2rq.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <v04220806b5137b59347a@[195.238.1.121]> <xzpn1n5q1ny.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <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>
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> >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
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