Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 07:20:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Dominique Bosse <bossed-AT-ERE.UMontreal.CA>
Subject: Re: about your list


On Tue, 21 May 1996, Nikos Gousgounis wrote:

> After all we are not obliged to receive 4 messages a day with spanisn speaking
> contents that we do not understand, as it happened today. Is that an English

		You don't have to *read* them.

> speaking list or shall I send from tommorrow messages to some friends of mine
> in Greek ?   TI KANETE EISTE KALA ? EYCHARISTO, PARAKALO ?

		Go right ahead. You might be surprised at
		how many people like to read about a topic
		they find interesting in a language they
		do not fully master.

> Is that Greek to you ? But not to me. OK I stop that but please tell to
> those Spanish students that feel lonely in Germany and Sweden, that a list
> is not a forum for anybody to express himself in his mother tongue because
> this can be
> ...GREEK TO OTHER PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT MOTHER TONGUES.
> So, please keep using English as a communication language and stop your ethno-
> centrisms everybody.

		As a Greek, you have a colonized attitude.
		
		Dominique Bosse, Ph.D.
		Universite de Montreal

		(Me gustan mucho las mensajes en espanhol.)


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