From: Michael Campbell <michael_s_campbell@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T06:54:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: was Re: turning modules into classes

> Many times, German takes the longest... Better yet, a product
> description or something like that], but rather that its lexicon is
> _huge_. You could also argue that Germans like precise speech.

I've read that the official language of politicians was decided to be
French (way back when) instead of German for exactly this reason;
diplomacy in its various forms did not work well with precision in
language.

So I read.  Probably untrue.  

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