Re: D9 Critical version for Delphi

From: Ingvar Nilsen (telcontr_at_online-not-this-part-.no)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:02:24 +0100

William Meyer wrote:
> On 08/16/04, Captain Jake said:
>
>
>> There are a LOT of Americans that do not speak English as their
>> primary language, so to presume that "Americans" can not understand
>> issues related to multiple languages or even speaking a
>> less-popular language is simply naive at best.
>
>
> Nor is it reasonable to assume that those of for whom English is the
> first language are necessarily either ignorant or incapable of
> understanding.

The difference between theory and practice is that
in theory there is no difference between theory
and practice, but in practice there is... :-)) 

-- 
Ingvar Nilsen

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