From: Scott Morris (swm@emanon.com)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 23:02:40 GMT-3
If you played a joke on someone of that rank, would it be considered a
"Prime Rib"?
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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Howard C. Berkowitz
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 2:41 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: NetMasterClass training
At 7:27 PM +0100 3/23/04, SANCHEZ-MONGE,ANTONIO (HP-France,ex2) wrote:
>Well, good English skills are not needed everywhere. They are in the
>US, UK and Australia, but I know many examples of people with very
>respectable jobs (is Prime Minister a respectable job?) who do not speak a
word of English.
Doesn't that depend on the Prime Minister?
>We live in a multicultural, "multilingual" world.
>
>Vale?
>
>;)
Ah, so desu ka.
Ach, so.
Mea culpa.
Point taken.
It is a reality, however, that the bulk of networking literature is in
English, so a reading knowledge is a practical necessity. I studied, not
well, Latin and German, and neither was terribly useful.
The only technical paper I ever really needed to read, which was in a Swiss
journal of biochemistry, was in French. With dictionary in hand, given I
was mostly working with chemical names, I was able to extract enough to
repeat an experiment -- at least, nothing exploded (well, there was one
flash fire, but that was my fault),
For some unfathomable reason, I seem to pick up spoken Japanese well enough
to order dinner and shop, and at least decently pronounce memorized things.
My Scandinavian colleagues tell me that I have a basically charming ability
to try to speak Svensk to the Danes and Dansk to the Swedes. I know enough
words of Krio to know when my Sierra Leonean friends are telling a proverb,
and to help out in the kitchen.
On a routine basis, I really wish I spoke Spanish, as it's common enough
around me.
Seriously, depending on what you want to do in networking, there can be
practical considerations. As far as networking professional organizations,
the ITU's official languages are French and English.
The IETF is in English. Simply because it's common to pretty much everyone,
the discussions at RIPE, the European networking forum are in English, as
are the Asia-Pacific APRICOT meetngs. LACNIC, the Latin American and
Caribbean address registry, uses Spanish, English, and some Portuguese.
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