Further evidence of the demise of English as world language

[Mark Mandel]

Amusing, but just a borrowing of a technical term not in the host language's
vocabulary.

Working at Honeywell Bull, in Billerica, Mass. in the 1980s, I often heard
conversations between engineers in Chinese, thickly larded with words like
"code" and "subroutine".

m a m

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Datorren astean OUTLETa [emphasis original] eskainiko dugu
> www.elkar.com gunean ..."
>
>
> For the polyglottally unhip, the language is Standard(ized) Basque.
>
> -Wilson
>

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