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Subject:English as the official language From:Anatole Wilson <awilson -at- VNET -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Jan 1994 15:10:43 PST
And on the other side of the coin, how successful has France's fight to
preserve French language and culture been? They even have a ministry of
culture, whose powers of censorship are unclear to me, but frightening
even in concept.
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Anatole Wilson "If I should say to a novice,
Sr. Assoc. Information Developer 'write from experience only,'
IBM, Santa Teresa Labs I should feel that this was
awilson -at- vnet -dot- ibm -dot- com rather a tantalizing monition
if I were not careful to add,
'try to be one of the people
on whom nothing is lost.'"
all company disclaimers apply --Henry James
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