On Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:17:37 +0200, "Uwaga" wrote:

Why don't you just say 'this is an english newsgroup, please post in
english', and that's all !!! you know, even if we don't see your face on
internet, at least we can check your educational background....

i agree with you english is the main language, and his post should have been
in english.... French was a beautiful language in the 18th ( even the UK
motto is Dieu est mon droit, and Honnis soit qui mal y pense... sorry ! ),
but unfortunately not anymore... but we should look at the future and then
start to learn Chinese... the countdown has started.... 15-20 years to
go.....

Hi Uwaga

Agreed. But translating Acheteurlockon's post from French to English
and back again a few times using an internet site such as whatever
Babelfish is now called can give quite amusing results.

It may well be an apocryphal story but I have heard of an early
translation program for technical papers, when asked to come up with a
translation of "hydraulic ram", came up with "water sheep".

James