Re: Apple II Reference Manual ("Red Book")

[Ralf A. Quint <ralf_quint@hotmail.com>]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:51:07 -0500, Roy and/or Janet Miller
<millers@inetnebr.com> wrote:

>"Ralf A. Quint" wrote:
>> 
>>Paul, Paul, Paul, what European arrogance. I hope you intended to add a
>
>> Sorry, to interfer, but i would be carefull with such staements. I'm a
>> European living for several years in the USA now and from expierience
>> i would rather be able to tell the opposite (but i don't ;-)))
>
>I was. It had to do with an earlier post and a reference to American
>arrogance. And the rest of your statement, I'm afraid, makes no sense in
>English. 
Which part do you not understand ? 

>> Have you ever been in the southern states from California to Florida ?
>> With the exception of Alabama and Missisippi, my spanish knowledge was
>> very helpful traveling throughout the whole area.
>> 
>I've lived in Pennsylvania (23 1/4 years), Tennessee (2 years),
>Mississippi (2 3/4 years), Kansas (11 1/2 years, including more than 6
>years less than a mile from Oklahoma) and now Nebraska (6 1/2 years.)
>I've visited and/or done business in Georgia, Texas, Louisiana, Alabama
>and Oklahoma. I've NEVER needed to know Spanish. And what does your
>comment have to do with my comment that you quoted?
>
Sorry i accidently snipped the wrong part and was to fast on the send
button. Here's the part that i wanted to reply to.
>>No one in America speaks American. The overwhelming majority of us speak
>>English. Ditto for Canada. Certainly not BBC English, but those of us
>>living on this continent can usually make ourselves understood when
>>speaking to someone from the British isles.
>>The monolingual Spanish minority isn't nearly as large as you imply.
>
I've been travelling from Florida east through the southern states for
several weeks, either by car or by Greybound. And i was running in a
lot of situations where the people on the street, in restaurants, bus
stations, shops or motels barely spoke english, but spanish. The only
exception was the two states that i mentioned and in/around New
Orleans. Beside the fact that at least for someone who is not used to
the southern (english) accents, a lot of people are hard to
understand.

But anyhow, you seem to have missed my last sentence of my prevoius
post. 
I would rather talk about the Apple II again....

Ralf