Automation

[Chris Angelico]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 7:03 AM, Alister <alister.ware at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:10:02 +0000, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>
>> On 14/11/2013 03:56, renato.barbosa.pim.pereira at gmail.com wrote:
>>> I apologize again for my bad english and any inconvenience that I have
>>> generated.
>>>
>>>
>> I do wish that people would stop apologising for poor English, it's an
>> extremely difficult language.  IIRC there are eight different ways of
>> pronouncing the vowel combination au.  Whatever happened to "There
>> should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."? :)
>
> As a native of England I have to agree
> it is far to arrogant to expect everyone else to be able to speak good
> English when I can barley order a beer in any other language.
> (even or especially in the USA)

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