William Safire

[Kjetil Rå Hauge]

>For those of you who want to look at Safire's 
>piece on "Putin/Poutine" (chtoby liubovat'sya ili
>prosto morochit' golovu),  its date was 4/2/05, 
>and not 4/1 as I had mentioned in my last
>message.  It certainly did seem April Foolish. . .
>
>Alex Mihailovic

Readers without access to the paper edition will 
find it with a search for "Poutine" in the search 
box of <http://www.nytimes.com/> or by following 
this link: 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/03ONLANGUAGE.html>. 
(Registration necessary, but free of charge.)

I especially enjoyed this fine piece of uninformedness:

"[...] maybe the United Nations will find a new 
raison d'être (that's ray-ZON DET-ra) in 
standardizing a system to encode Roman and 
Cyrillic letters and Chinese and Japanese 
characters to make them computer-friendly on all 
the world's screens. [...]  For users of 
tomorrow's Internet to accurately cross cultures, 
experts in phonetics and transliteration will 
first have to create and agree on a standard 
system."

And imagine if they find a way of transmtting sound by computers!
--
--- Kjetil Rå Hauge, U. of Oslo. Tel. +47/22856710, fax +47/22856887
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