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From: whitten@netcom.com (David Whitten)
Subject: Re: A language problem
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1994 17:54:59 GMT
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Neil K. Guy (neilg@fraser.sfu.ca) wrote:

:  Like many educated Europeans, you have excellent English. Certainly a
: damn sight better than the French or German or Swedish or whatever of
: most of us North Americans. :) But I must admit a certain wish that
: people would write more stuff in their native tongues. I wouldn't be
: able to get very far in a German text adventure, but I think *someone*
: should challenge the cultural imperialism of the English language in
: the domain of computers! :)

I've always thought it would be really cool to learn a foreign language
from an adventure game, though I suspect it would be as hard as writing
a competent adventure in Basic English.  It would have to be done with 
a limited vocabulary tho, as I expect looking in the dictionary for
every word could get rather tedious....

David Whitten(@netcom.com) (214) 437-5255
