On Wed, 27 Mar 1996, os wrote: TCMay wrote
There is not a single foreign language I can think of it that would help me in my goals or help anyone I know.
Oyvind wrote
I have never known anyone being disadvantaged by knowing another language than their mother tongue.
I'd say Oyvind is right. If you can't speak Spanish the only jobs available in Southern Florida are with the federal government. If you can't speak French, you can't get a job in northern New Hampshire, or northern Vermont. One other advantage to knowing a language other than English. Legal encryption. << Unless a federal law bans the use of any language other than English for any purpose, which would be a violation of NAFTA, not that the US hasn't allready violated NAFTA. >> So if the use of encryption is banned, just switch to writing everything in something like Xhosa, or Chinese, using the Wade Giles transliteration, or Dervish. << Heck, do all your important stuff in languages like that, and then encrypt it with PGP. Would the cryptanalysts recognise the plain text, even if they had it? >> xan jonathon grafolog@netcom.com