RE: Off topic: language death in the US

2001-03-15 Thread Ayers, Mike
> From: Marco Cimarosti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Well, one wonders: could that president's madness possibly hide some > ingenuity? > Not really, I suspect. Unlike the situations you describe, American foreign language training seems by and large to have the focus that studen

RE: Off topic: language death in the US

2001-03-15 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Well, one wonders: could that president's madness possibly hide some ingenuity? Also here in Europe (well, in Italy, I can't speak about other countries) a faculty of languages is the last place where you hope to learn a foreign language. Most language departments here simply don't consider teac

Re: Off topic: language death in the US

2001-03-14 Thread James Partridge
University - Original Message - From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 6:08 PM Subject: Off topic: language death in the US Sigh. http://www.chronicle.com/free/v47/i26/26a01401.htm --

Off topic: language death in the US

2001-03-14 Thread Michael Everson
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