Re: Apple and the Holy War

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
> ARE YOU KIDDING?  In my country, almost everyone will have to learn
> some of THREE foreign languages before even entering high school!  My
> son is 13 years, and is at his 6th year at school.  His mother tongue
> is Swedish of course.  He's been learning English at school for 6
> years and German for 2 years.  One half year he also learnt a little
> French....
> 

I wish I was kidding. Of course not all of us are ignorant :) I'm quite
proud that I forgot almost all the French I learned in 7th grade, and
saddened that four years of high school German hasn't stuck with me as I
wish it had. Of course, the Greek and Hebrew that I've studied was for
my profession, but I am really wanting to have some review on both of
them. Of the four languages that I've studied (a loose use of the word
for French) German and Hebrew are, IMHO, the most beautiful. I love
their sound, and their power. But it nice knowing that English has the
richest vocabulary of any language, and that I'll NEVER know a fourth of
its words.

Roy
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